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Hindi. “Unnatural” gender in Hindi

  • Kira Hall
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Gender Across Languages
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Abstract

1.Introduction 2. Gender in the Hindi language system 2.1 Grammatical gender: Assignment and agreement 2.2 Generic masculines 2.3 Gender reversal: Terms of endearment and insult 3. Uses of the gender system by Hindi-speaking hijras 3.1 Language in hijra socialization 3.2 The exploitation of grammatical gender in everyday hijra conversation 3.3 The use of masculine self-reference 4. Conclusions Appendix Notes References

Abstract

1.Introduction 2. Gender in the Hindi language system 2.1 Grammatical gender: Assignment and agreement 2.2 Generic masculines 2.3 Gender reversal: Terms of endearment and insult 3. Uses of the gender system by Hindi-speaking hijras 3.1 Language in hijra socialization 3.2 The exploitation of grammatical gender in everyday hijra conversation 3.3 The use of masculine self-reference 4. Conclusions Appendix 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.10.12hal

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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