Gender, Language and New Literacy: A Multilingual Analysis
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Gender, Language and New Literacy: A Multilingual Analysis
By (Author) Eva-Maria Thne
Edited by Carla Bazzanella
Edited by Simona Leonardi
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
1st January 2009
United Kingdom
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Gender studies, gender groups
Media studies: internet, digital media and society
Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects
306.440285
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Description
Gender, Language and New Literacy presents cross-cultural research on gender as it is lexically and socially categorized in electronic media. For the purposes of the study, the authors have compiled a corpus of gender terms from online thesauruses to show how new technologies interact with gender categorizations in different languages, and how these are related to their respective culture and society. Each language is examined within the same theoretical framework, functional semantics, focusing on lexicon. This common empirical ground facilitates cross-language comparison. The contributors examine languages from around the world, including the Indo-European, Semitic, Uralic and Austro-Asiatic families. This is a cutting-edge research book that will be of interest to academics working in the fields of corpus linguistics, and gender studies.
Author Bio
Eva-Maria Thne is Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Bologna, Italy. Carla Bazzanella is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Torino, Italy. Simona Leonardi is Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at the University Federico II, Naples, Italy.
