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Finnish. The communication of gender in Finnish

  • Mila Engelberg
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Gender Across Languages
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Abstract

1.Introduction 2. Women’s position in Finland 3. Research on gender in Finnish 4. Gender in Finnish 4.1 Personal nouns: Referential and morphological aspects 4.2 Male generics 4.3 Female generics 5. The interpretation of male generics: Empirical evidence 6. The empirical investigation of covert male bias 6.1 The prototypical human being 6.2 Ihminen as ‘woman’ 7. Gender in Finnish proverbs 8. Gendered terms of abuse 9. Female/male discourse 10. Language reform 11. Conclusion Notes References

Abstract

1.Introduction 2. Women’s position in Finland 3. Research on gender in Finnish 4. Gender in Finnish 4.1 Personal nouns: Referential and morphological aspects 4.2 Male generics 4.3 Female generics 5. The interpretation of male generics: Empirical evidence 6. The empirical investigation of covert male bias 6.1 The prototypical human being 6.2 Ihminen as ‘woman’ 7. Gender in Finnish proverbs 8. Gendered terms of abuse 9. Female/male discourse 10. Language reform 11. Conclusion Notes References

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
https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.10.11eng

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
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