Greek. Women, gender and Modern Greek
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Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
Abstract
1.Introduction
2.Grammatical gender
2.1Grammatical gender and inflection
2.2Personal nouns: Gender assignment
2.3Agreement and coordination
2.4Proper names
3.Gender asymmetries
3.1Generic use of the masculine gender
3.2Lexical and pragmatic asymmetries
4.Feminine occupational terms
4.1The problem
4.2The current situation
4.3Two exploratory studies
5.Language and gender in Greece: The public debate and tendencies of change
5.1Language critique
5.2Tendencies of language change
5.3The contribution of linguistics
6.Conclusion
Notes
References
Abstract
1.Introduction
2.Grammatical gender
2.1Grammatical gender and inflection
2.2Personal nouns: Gender assignment
2.3Agreement and coordination
2.4Proper names
3.Gender asymmetries
3.1Generic use of the masculine gender
3.2Lexical and pragmatic asymmetries
4.Feminine occupational terms
4.1The problem
4.2The current situation
4.3Two exploratory studies
5.Language and gender in Greece: The public debate and tendencies of change
5.1Language critique
5.2Tendencies of language change
5.3The contribution of linguistics
6.Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Languages of Volume I and II vii
- Preface ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- List of abbreviations xiii
- Gender across languages 1
- Czech. Communicating gender in Czech 27
- Danish. Equal before the law – unequal in language 59
- French. Gender in French 87
- French. Gender and language politics in France 119
- German. Engendering female visibility in German 141
- Greek. Women, gender and Modern Greek 175
- Japanese. Gendered structures in Japanese 201
- Japanese. Women’s language as a group identity marker in Japanese 227
- Oriya. Linguistic and socio-cultural implications of gendered structures in Oriya 239
- Polish. Language and gender in Polish 259
- Serbian. The expression of gender in Serbian 287
- Swahili. Perceptions of gender in Swahili language and society 311
- Swedish. Linguistic and public attitudes towards gender in Swedish 339
- Notes on contributors 369
- Name index 375
- Subject index 383
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Languages of Volume I and II vii
- Preface ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- List of abbreviations xiii
- Gender across languages 1
- Czech. Communicating gender in Czech 27
- Danish. Equal before the law – unequal in language 59
- French. Gender in French 87
- French. Gender and language politics in France 119
- German. Engendering female visibility in German 141
- Greek. Women, gender and Modern Greek 175
- Japanese. Gendered structures in Japanese 201
- Japanese. Women’s language as a group identity marker in Japanese 227
- Oriya. Linguistic and socio-cultural implications of gendered structures in Oriya 239
- Polish. Language and gender in Polish 259
- Serbian. The expression of gender in Serbian 287
- Swahili. Perceptions of gender in Swahili language and society 311
- Swedish. Linguistic and public attitudes towards gender in Swedish 339
- Notes on contributors 369
- Name index 375
- Subject index 383
