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Kotthoff, Helga and Ruth Wodak, eds. 1997. Communicating Gender in Context. (Pragmatics and Beyond: New Series 42). John Benjamins. xxvi + 424 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
ISBN
90 272 5055 3

Annotation

The articles in this volume deal not only with grammatical gender, but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context. Attention is directed to European cultures which till now have come up short in linguistic and discourse analytic gender studies (e.g., Austria, Spain, Turkey, Germany, Poland and Sweden). But also English speech communities and questions of English grammatical gender are dealt with. The studies show that the feminine gender is often staged in a way that leads to situative asymmetry to the advantage of men. The broader societal context of patriarchy does not determine all communicative encounters, but demands particular efforts from women and men to be subverted.

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