Add to ORKGLinguistic genders are usually assigned to nominal referents on the basis of such core semantic properties as sex (or natural gender), animacy, humanness, in addition to shape, form and size. In a number of languages, linguistic genders have affective values. Reversing genders ? from feminine to masculine or from masculine to feminine ? often reflects speaker?s attitudes towards the entity, including endearment, respect, and disdain. The paper focuses on semantic effects of gender reversals, and the ways in which the choice of linguistic gender and gender switches may correlate with the implications of social gender as a cultural construct
<p>The concept of gender was introduced in our early stage of learning English and Bengali pre...
This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for famil...
Gender is a fascinating category, central and pervasive in some languages and totally absent in othe...
A fundamental goal in cognitive and historical linguistic research on semantic change is to characte...
This talk addresses the question of how gendered language forms influence recipients’ cognition and ...
none2noLanguage is one of the most powerful means through which sexism and gender discrimination are...
Many languages of the world have genders, that is, grammatical agreement classes, based on such core...
Psycholinguistic investigations of the way readers and speakers perceive gender have shown several b...
Gender inequality remains an issue of high relevance, and controversy, in society. Previous research...
This paper describes gender as a sociocultural construct and explores the ways in which this affects...
# The Author(s) 2014. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract We inv...
The term 'gender' requires discussion, since linguistic traditions differ here. This requires us to ...
Language bias in cross-gender relationship reflects unequal position of men and women in the society...
To identify effective strategies to promote gender equality has been a challenge in the last years. ...
In the preceding chapters, we have focused on the ways in which representation in language can have ...
<p>The concept of gender was introduced in our early stage of learning English and Bengali pre...
This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for famil...
Gender is a fascinating category, central and pervasive in some languages and totally absent in othe...
A fundamental goal in cognitive and historical linguistic research on semantic change is to characte...
This talk addresses the question of how gendered language forms influence recipients’ cognition and ...
none2noLanguage is one of the most powerful means through which sexism and gender discrimination are...
Many languages of the world have genders, that is, grammatical agreement classes, based on such core...
Psycholinguistic investigations of the way readers and speakers perceive gender have shown several b...
Gender inequality remains an issue of high relevance, and controversy, in society. Previous research...
This paper describes gender as a sociocultural construct and explores the ways in which this affects...
# The Author(s) 2014. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract We inv...
The term 'gender' requires discussion, since linguistic traditions differ here. This requires us to ...
Language bias in cross-gender relationship reflects unequal position of men and women in the society...
To identify effective strategies to promote gender equality has been a challenge in the last years. ...
In the preceding chapters, we have focused on the ways in which representation in language can have ...
<p>The concept of gender was introduced in our early stage of learning English and Bengali pre...
This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for famil...
Gender is a fascinating category, central and pervasive in some languages and totally absent in othe...