Gender and language in sub-Saharan Africa

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements xi
4. Gender and language in sub-Saharan Africa 1
5. Part 1. Gender and linguistic description
6. Chapter 1. Issues of language and gender in iweto marriage as practised by the Kamba in Kenya 29
7. Chapter 2. Language, gender and age(ism) in Setswana 53
8. Chapter 3. Variation with gender in the tonal speech varieties of Kera (Chadic) 79
9. Part 2. Public settings and gendered language use
10. Chapter 4. Language, gender and social construction in a pre-school in Gaborone 97
11. Chapter 5. Variation in address forms for Nigerian married and unmarried women in the workplace 117
12. Part 3. Mediated masculinities and femininities
13. Chapter 6. A new South African man? 131
14. Chapter 7. The ‘Tinto’ image in contemporary Tswana songs 149
15. Chapter 8.Language and gender in popular music in Botswana 177
16. Part 4. Gendered struggles and change
17. Chapter 9. Sex discourses and the construction of gender identity in Sesotho 205
18. Chapter 10. Student Pidgin 217
19. Chapter 11. Gendered linguistic choices among isiZulu-speaking women in contemporary South Africa 233
20. Chapter 12. Homophobic language and linguistic resistance in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 253
21. Chapter 13. “I cannot be blamed for my own assault” 275
22. Part 5. Epilogue
23. African feminism? 301
24. Gender, sexuality and language in African contexts 315
25. Contributors 325
26. Index 327