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Other authors / contributors: | Thüne, Eva-Maria.
Leonardi, Simona.
Bazzanella, Carla.
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ISBN: | 9781847143495 1847143490 9781441189448 1441189440 1281295213 9781281295217 1282013068 9781282013063 0826488528 9780826432186
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: Gender, language and new literacy. London ; New York : Continuum, 2006
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