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  title info:
    title: How gender shapes the world
  name:
    name part: Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡. (Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Llibres electrònics.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 271 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for family life, patterns of socialization, distribution of tasks, and spheres of responsibilities. The way gender is articulated shapes the world of individuals, and of the societies they live in. Gender has three faces: Linguistic Gender-the original sense of 'gender'-is a feature of many languages and reflects the division of nouns into grammatical classes or genders (feminine, masculine, neuter, and so on); Natural Gender, or sex, refers to the division of animates into males and females; and Social Gender reflects the social implications and norms of being a man or a woman (or perhaps something else). Women and men may talk and behave differently, depending on conventions within the societies they live in, and their role in language maintenance can also vary. The book focuses on how gender in its many guises is reflected in human languages, how it features in myths and metaphors, and the role it plays in human cognition. Examples are drawn from all over the world, with a special focus on Aikhenvald's extensive fieldwork in Amazonia and New Guinea.
  table of contents: The multifaceted gender -- Linguistic gender and its expression -- Round women and long men: physical properties in linguistic gender -- What are linguistic genders good for? -- Gender meanings in grammar and lexicon -- The rise and fall of linguistic gender -- Manly women and womanly men: the effects of gender reversal -- The images of gender -- When women and men speak differently -- The rituals of gender -- Gender in grammar and society -- The heart of the matter: envoi.
  note: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-250) and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Sociolinguistics
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages
    topic: Sex differences
  subject:
    topic: Sociolinguistique
  subject:
    topic: Langage et langues
    topic: Différences entre sexes
  subject:
    topic: sociolinguistics
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages
    topic: Sex differences
  subject:
    topic: Sociolinguistics
  subject:
    topic: Gènere
  subject:
    topic: Diferències entre sexes
  subject:
    topic: Sociolingüística
  subject:
    topic: Geschlechtsidentität
  subject:
    topic: Sozialverhalten
  subject:
    topic: Sprache
  subject:
    topic: Genus
  subject:
    topic: Geschlecht
  subject:
    topic: Geschlechterrolle
  subject:
    topic: Kognition
  classification: P40 .A35 2016
  classification: 306.44
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    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016
      edition: First edition.
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    record creation date: 161103
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    language of cataloging:
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