Grammatical gender in interaction : : cultural and cognitive aspects / / Angeliki Alvanoudi.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture, Volume 9
• VerfasserIn: Alvanoudi, Angeliki,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; Volume 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 197 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Grammatical Gender in Interaction: Cultural and Cognitive Aspects Angeliki Alvanoudi explores the relation between grammatical gender in person reference, culture and cognition in Modern Greek conversation. The author investigates the cultural and cognitive aspects of grammatical gender, by drawing on feminist sociolinguistic and non-linguistic approaches, cognitive linguistics, research on linguistic relativity, studies on person reference in interaction and conversation analysis. The study presented in this book shows that the use of grammatical gender contributes to the routine achievement of sociocultural gender in interaction and that grammatical gender guides speakers’ thinking of referents as female or male at the time of speaking.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Grammatical Gender -- 3 Grammatical Gender and the Intersection of Sociocultural Gender/Sex -- 4 Grammatical Gender and Speakers’ Cognition -- 5 Grammatical Gender, Culture and Cognition in Interaction -- 6 The Empirical Investigation of Grammatical Gender in Interaction -- 7 What Can We Conclude? -- References -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects.