Round Women and Long Men: Shape, Size, and the Meanings of Gender in New Guinea and Beyond  

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Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 54 no. 1 (2012), page 33-86.
Fulltext: 33-86.pdf (4.3MB)

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The concepto fg enderh as threef aces.N aturalg ender(N -gendero,r sex), Social gender( S-gender)w, hichr eflecttsh e social implicationosf b einga man or a woman( or perhapss omethingin between)a, nd Linguisticg ender( Lgender). L -gendert endst o mirrors ocial and culturals tereotypeosf S -gender. Recurrencto rrelationbse tweens hape,s ize,a nd L-genderc hoicea re a featureo f languageso ft heS epikr egiono fP apua New Guinea.A ftera briefs ummaryof L - gendera nd the principleso fi ts choicea crossl anguages,a detaileda nalysisi s offereodf L -genderc hoicei n Manambu,a Ndu languagef romt he Sepikr egion. It is shownt hat gendera ssignmentt o humansc orrelatesw ithN -gendera nd reflectsS -genders tatus.O thern ounsh ave no fixedg ender.T heirg enderd ependso n thep hysicapl ropertieosf t hen oun'sr eferentW. e thent urnt o a crosslinguisticsu rveyo fo therl anguages,i n New Guinea and beyondw, heres hape and size are deployeda s semanticp arametersin L-genderc hoice.F urthers emanticc orrelateso fg endera ssignmentin the languageso ft he worldi nclude ther oleso fr eferentisn mythsa,n d salientp ropertiecso rrelatinwg itht hep ositiono fS -gender(e speciallyr elevantf orL -genderc hoicea nd L-genderssw itches forh umans).

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