Slavic gender linguistics / edited by Margaret H. Mills.

This edited volume offers the first comprehensive collection devoted to the study of Slavic gender linguistics by a team of international Slavic linguists. It features eleven highly-original, data-driven contributions representing a variety of approaches to this understudied and underrepresented are...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Mills, Margaret H., 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1999.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 61.
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Table of Contents:
  • SLAVIC GENDER LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Background and Introduction; Referential knowledge in discourse: Interpretation of {I, you} in male and female speech; Gender, iconicity, and agreement in Russian; A gender linguistic analysis of Mrozek's Tango; Gender linguistic analysis of Russian children'sliterature; Gender roles and perception: Russian diminutives in discourse; Gender and conversational management in Russian; ""Teacher talk"" in the Russian and Americanclassroom:Dominance and cultural framing.
  • Speaker, gender, and the choice of 'communicatives'in contemporary RussianThe rule of femininization in Russian; Gender-based results of a quantitative analysis of spoken Czech: Contribution to the Czech national corpus; Whence virility? The rise of a new gender distinction in the history of Slavic; Index.