Gender, language and new literacy /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Continuum, 2006.
Description:1 online resource (x, 235 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11184903
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Other authors / contributors:Thüne, Eva-Maria.
Leonardi, Simona.
Bazzanella, Carla.
ISBN:9781847143495
1847143490
9781441189448
1441189440
1281295213
9781281295217
1282013068
9781282013063
0826488528
9780826432186
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Gender, Language and New Literacy presents cross-cultural research on gender as it is lexically and socially categorized in electronic media. For the purposes of the study, the authors have compiled a corpus of gender terms from online thesauruses to show how new technologies interact with gender categorizations in different languages, and how these are related to their respective culture and society. Each language is examined within the same theoretical framework, functional semantics, focusing on lexicon. This common empirical ground facilitates cross-language comparison. The contributors ex.
Other form:Print version: Gender, language and new literacy. London ; New York : Continuum, 2006