Women and Language in Australian and New Zealand SocietyLanguage and gender research including role of Aboriginal women in language change and language maintenance; paper by Jakelin Troy on Aboriginal women and contact languages separately annotated. |
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'Ms'in Australia The use of 'Ms' in official documents and in the media In Australia,
as in the United States, Canada and Great Britain, the call for the introduction of a
personal title for women which would avoid revealing marital status came ...
'Ms'in Australia The use of 'Ms' in official documents and in the media In Australia,
as in the United States, Canada and Great Britain, the call for the introduction of a
personal title for women which would avoid revealing marital status came ...
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With regard to interpretation (semantic level), the 'Ms' title is still struggling to
obtain a more or less uniform denotation, as a title which does not reveal marital
status. Both in media reports and personal accounts, the 'Ms' title is given various
...
With regard to interpretation (semantic level), the 'Ms' title is still struggling to
obtain a more or less uniform denotation, as a title which does not reveal marital
status. Both in media reports and personal accounts, the 'Ms' title is given various
...
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backgrounds (age, employment, marital status), the 'trendsetters' are found
among women whose status and roles are not adequately accommodated by the
existing title system or whose ideological orientation is at odds with the ideology
...
backgrounds (age, employment, marital status), the 'trendsetters' are found
among women whose status and roles are not adequately accommodated by the
existing title system or whose ideological orientation is at odds with the ideology
...
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Contents
Notes on contributors | 5 |
research in New Zealand | 32 |
Sex differences in intergroup and intragroup | 45 |
Copyright | |
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Abooroo Aboriginal languages Aboriginal women adolescents adult analysis appear Australian Aboriginal languages Australian English behaviour boys British English cent child characters colonists communication contact languages conversational corpus Courier-Mail described development of contact distribution Education Eisikovits example express female and male feminist Freebody frequently function gender differences Giles guidelines headline hedges Holmes Horvath Hyperno inter-group interaction interpretation interviewer Jane Kramarae Lakoff language and gender Language in Society language shift lexical linguistic male and female marital status married meaning Melbourne Miss Monash University mothers Ngiyampaa non-Aboriginal non-sexist language Occurrences paper patterns Pauwels personal title Peter Peter and Jane phonological pidgin politeness Poynton pragmatic particles reading books relationship role semantic sex differences sexism sexist language social sociolinguistic sort Sydney tag questions title for women title system University users variation verb wife woman Women and language women's and men's words Zealand English
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| Title | Women and Language in Australian and New Zealand Society |
| Editor | Anne Pauwels |
| Contributor | Anne Pauwels |
| Publisher | Australian Professional Publications, 1987 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 24 Jul 2008 |
| ISBN | 094941610X, 9780949416100 |
| Length | 169 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Women's Studies |
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