Welsh. The politics of language and gender in Wales
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Gwenllian M. Awbery
Abstract
1.Introduction 2. Welsh versus English: Language shift and the struggle for legitimacy in the public domain 3. Selected structural properties of the Welsh language 3.1 Grammatical gender and referential gender 3.2 The pronoun system 3.3 Generic masculines 4. Bringing the language and gender debate to centre stage 5. Guidelines for non-discriminatory language use 6. The ongoing debate Notes References
Abstract
1.Introduction 2. Welsh versus English: Language shift and the struggle for legitimacy in the public domain 3. Selected structural properties of the Welsh language 3.1 Grammatical gender and referential gender 3.2 The pronoun system 3.3 Generic masculines 4. Bringing the language and gender debate to centre stage 5. Guidelines for non-discriminatory language use 6. The ongoing debate Notes References
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Languages of Volume I and III vii
- Preface ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- List of abbreviations xiii
- Gender across languages 1
- Chinese. Editors’ note 27
- Chinese. In Chinese, men and women are equal – or – women and men are equal? 29
- Chinese. Gender-related use of sentence-final particles in Cantonese 57
- Chinese. Reality and representation 73
- Dutch. Towards a more gender-fair usage in Netherlands Dutch 81
- Finnish. The communication of gender in Finnish 109
- Hindi. “Unnatural” gender in Hindi 133
- Icelandic. Masculine generics in current Icelandic 163
- Italian. Gender and female visibility in Italian 187
- Norwegian. The representation of gender in Norwegian 219
- Spanish. Gender in Spanish 251
- Vietnamese. Gender in addressing and self-reference in Vietnamese 281
- Welsh. The politics of language and gender in Wales 313
- Notes on contributors 331
- Name index 337
- Subject index 343
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Languages of Volume I and III vii
- Preface ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- List of abbreviations xiii
- Gender across languages 1
- Chinese. Editors’ note 27
- Chinese. In Chinese, men and women are equal – or – women and men are equal? 29
- Chinese. Gender-related use of sentence-final particles in Cantonese 57
- Chinese. Reality and representation 73
- Dutch. Towards a more gender-fair usage in Netherlands Dutch 81
- Finnish. The communication of gender in Finnish 109
- Hindi. “Unnatural” gender in Hindi 133
- Icelandic. Masculine generics in current Icelandic 163
- Italian. Gender and female visibility in Italian 187
- Norwegian. The representation of gender in Norwegian 219
- Spanish. Gender in Spanish 251
- Vietnamese. Gender in addressing and self-reference in Vietnamese 281
- Welsh. The politics of language and gender in Wales 313
- Notes on contributors 331
- Name index 337
- Subject index 343
