Gender, language and the periphery : grammatical and social gender from the margins / edited by Julie Abbou ; Fabienne H. Baider, University of Cyprus.

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Gender, Language and the Periphery; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Periphery, gender, language: An introduction ; 1. From centre to margin; 2. Minor phenomena and minorisation: The structure in question; 2.1 Theorising the minor; 2.2 Structure, meaning and power; 2.3 Gender structures and linguistic structures; 3. De-territorialising and decolonising linguistics; 3.1 De-territorialising linguistics; 3.2 Decolonising linguistics; 3.3 Toward a transversal methodology; 4. Undoing grammatical gender; 5. Intersectional peripheries; 6. Conclusion; References.

Part I. Undoing grammatical genderTrying to change a gender-marked language: Classical vs. Modern Hebrew; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Grammatical gender and social context; 1.2 Grammatical gender and linguistic change; 2. Grammatical gender in Classical Hebrew; 2.1 Function words; 2.2 Content words; 3. Grammatical gender in Modern Hebrew; 4. Linguistic changes regarding gender; 4.1 Gender neutralization; 4.2 Gender feminization; 5. Masculinization as a new trend; 6. Conclusions; References; Gender marking and the feminine imaginary in Arabic; 1. Introduction; 2. Gendering language and speech.

2.1 Description of gender in Classical Arabic2.2 Grammarian discourse and gender: A social and linguistic imaginary; 3. Feminisation and masculinisation of nouns and adjectives; 3.1 Feminisation of professional titles in Classical Arabic and Tunisian; 3.2 Masculinised feminine and feminized masculine: 'The rebellious adjectives'; 4. The construction of the feminine imaginary?; A poststructuralist approach to structural gender linguistics: Initial considerations; 1. Introduction; 2. A poststructuralist approach to gendered language structures; 3. Methodological considerations.

4. De-essentialisation through cross-linguistic analysis: Gender categories in English, German and Croatian5. De-essentialisation through historical linguistic analysis; 6. De-essentialisation through analysis of the usage patterns of particular personal reference forms; 7. Conclusion; References; A hermeneutical approach to gender linguistic materiality: Semiotic and structural categ; 1. Introduction; 2. Interplay between grammatical, semantic and social features of the gender categorisation; 2.1 Gender and classification systems; 2.2 Towards a hermeneutical reading of grammatical gender.

3. Methodological consequences: An inter-level and interlingual approach4. Linguistic gender in English; 5. Linguistic gender in Cantonese; 5.1 Sociolinguistic elements of Cantonese; 5.2 Lexicon: Relational terms and keys; 5.3 Morphology: Sentence particles; 5.4 Syntax: The written pronominal system and its evolution; 6. Gender translation: An English/Cantonese comparative survey; 6.1 Corpus presentation; 6.2 Written Cantonese: Contextualisation; 6.3 Data analysis; 6.4 Analysis sum-up; 7. Conclusion; Acknowledgement; References; Gender bias in Bantu languages: The case of Cilubà (L31).

This volume aims to demonstrate that the centre/periphery tension allows for a theory of gender understood as a power relationship with implications for a political analysis of language structures, language uses and linguistic resistances. All of the 12 chapters included in this volume work on understudied languages such as Moldovan, Lakota, Cantonese, Bajjika, Croatian, Hebrew, Arabic, Ciluba, Cantonese, Cypriot Greek, Korean, Malaysian, Basque and Belarusian and they all explore from the margins different dimensions of social gender in grammar. The diversity of languages is reflected in the range of theoretical frameworks (linguistic anthropology, systemic functional linguistics, contrastive syntactical analysis to name a few) used by the authors in order to apprehend the fluidity of gender( -ed) language and identity, to highlight the social constraints on daily discourse and to identify discourses that resist gender norms. This book will be highly relevant for students and researchers working on the interface of gender with morpho-syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse analysis.

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