Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Languages of Volume I and III vii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. List of abbreviations xiii
7. Gender across languages 1
8. Chinese. Editors’ note 27
9. Chinese. In Chinese, men and women are equal – or – women and men are equal? 29
10. Chinese. Gender-related use of sentence-final particles in Cantonese 57
11. Chinese. Reality and representation 73
12. Dutch. Towards a more gender-fair usage in Netherlands Dutch 81
13. Finnish. The communication of gender in Finnish 109
14. Hindi. “Unnatural” gender in Hindi 133
15. Icelandic. Masculine generics in current Icelandic 163
16. Italian. Gender and female visibility in Italian 187
17. Norwegian. The representation of gender in Norwegian 219
18. Spanish. Gender in Spanish 251
19. Vietnamese. Gender in addressing and self-reference in Vietnamese 281
20. Welsh. The politics of language and gender in Wales 313
21. Notes on contributors 331
22. Name index 337
23. Subject index 343