Swedish. Linguistic and public attitudes towards gender in Swedish
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Lann Hornscheidt
Abstract
1.Introduction
2.Grammatical gender and agreement
3.Personal nouns
3.1Nouns with lexical gender
3.2Gender-indefinite personal nouns
3.3Word-formation
3.3.1Compounding
3.3.2Derivation
4.Pronominalisation
4.1Grammatical agreement relations
4.2Semantic agreement relations
4.2.1Semantic agreement: Common vs. neuter gender
4.2.2Semantic agreement: Female vs. male pronouns
5.Other possibilities for gender-specific personal reference
6.Language change under the influence of the feminist movement
6.1Neutralisation
6.2Overt gender-specification
6.3Pronouns
6.4Adjectival modification
7.Public attitudes towards feminist language change in the 1990s
8.Conclusion
Notes
References
Abstract
1.Introduction
2.Grammatical gender and agreement
3.Personal nouns
3.1Nouns with lexical gender
3.2Gender-indefinite personal nouns
3.3Word-formation
3.3.1Compounding
3.3.2Derivation
4.Pronominalisation
4.1Grammatical agreement relations
4.2Semantic agreement relations
4.2.1Semantic agreement: Common vs. neuter gender
4.2.2Semantic agreement: Female vs. male pronouns
5.Other possibilities for gender-specific personal reference
6.Language change under the influence of the feminist movement
6.1Neutralisation
6.2Overt gender-specification
6.3Pronouns
6.4Adjectival modification
7.Public attitudes towards feminist language change in the 1990s
8.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
