Gender across languages : the linguistic representation of women and men /

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Volume 1. -- The linguistic representation of women and men -- Marlis Hellinger and Hadumond Bussman -- Shifting sands: Language and gender in Moroccan Arabic / Atiqa Hachimi -- Belizean Creole: gender, creole, and the role of women in language change / Genevieve Escure -- Communicating gender in the Easter Maroon Creole of Suriname / Bettina Migge -- English -- gender in a global language / Marlis Hellinger -- A corpus-based view of gender in New Zealand / Janet Holmes -- Spreading the feminist work: the case of the new courtesy title Ms in Australian english / Anne Pauwels -- A corpus-based view of gender in British and American english / Suzanne Romaine -- Gender switch in modern Hebrew / Yishai Tobin -- Gender in Javanes Indonesian / Esther Kuntjara -- Deconstructing gender -- The case of Romanian / fForence Maurice -- Doing gender in Russian: structure and perspective / ursula Doleschal and Sonja Schmid -- The communication of gender in turkish / Friederike Braun.Volume 2. -- The linguistic representation of women and men / Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bussmann -- In Chinese, men and women are equal -or-women and men are equal? / Charles Ettner -- Gender-related use of sentence-final particles in Cantonese / marjorie K.M. Chan -- Reality and representation: social control and gender relations in Mandarin Chinese proverbs / Hong Zhang -- Towards a more gender-fair usage in Natherlands Dutch / Marinel Gerritsen -- The communication of gender in Finnish / Mila Engelberg -- "Unnatural" gender in Hindi / Kira hall -- Masculine generics in current icelandic / Anna gunnarsdotter Gronberg -- Gender and female visibility in Italian / gianna Marcato and Eva-maria Thune -- The representation of gender in Norwegian /Tove Bull and Toril Swan -- Gender in Spanish: tradition and innovation / Uwe Kjoer Nissen -- Gender in addressing and self-reference in Vietnamese: variation and change / Hoa Pham -- The politics of language and gender in Wales / Gwenllian Awbery, Kathryn Jones and Delyth Morris.The linguistic representation of women and men / Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bussmann -- Communciating gender in Czech / Svetla Cmerjrkova -- Equal before the law -- unequal in language / Mirsten Gomard and Mette Kunoe -- Gender in French: structural properties, incongruences and asymmetries / Elmar Schafroth -- Gender and language politics in France / Elisabeth Burr -- Engendering female visibility in German / Hadumod Bussmann and Marlis Hellinger -- Women, gender and modern Greek / Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou -- Gendered structures in Japanese / Janet S. Shibamoto Smith -- Women's language as a group identity marker in Japanese / Schiko Ide -- Linguistic and socio-cultural implications of gendered structures in Oriya / Kalyanamalini Sahoo -- Language and gender in Polish / Gabriela Koniuszniec and Hank Blaxzkowska -- The expression of gender in Serbian /Elke Hentschel -- Perceptions of gender in Swahili language and society / Rose Marie Beck -- Linguistic and public attitudes towards gender in Swedish / Antje Hornscheidt