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Bilingual women : anthropological approaches to second language use

Title: Bilingual women : anthropological approaches to second language use / edited by Pauline Burton, Ketaki Kushari Dyson, and Shirley Ardener.
Publication: Oxford ; Providence : Berg, 1994.

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viii, 198 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Throughout the world, women mediate between cultures as bilingual and multi-lingual speakers, teachers, translators, and interpreters. They may be seen as the guardians of minority languages or be perceived as 'good at languages'. However, very little has so far been published on women and language use in bilingual or multi-cultural situations.
There is a considerable body of work both in bilingualism as a general phenomenon, and on language use and gender; in this collection of papers, these issues are combined. The authors are, in the main, practising social anthropologists; language teachers, interpreters, and writers have also contributed. The papers in this volume cover a wide variety of geographical and linguistic situations: from the death of Gaelic in Scotland, to the use of Spanish by Quechua and Aymara women in the Andes.
Certain common themes emerge: dominant and subdominant languages, women's use of them (in Bolivia, Chile, Zaire, Mongolia and Goa); ambivalent attitudes towards women as translators, interpreters and writers in English as a second language; and the critical role of women in the survival (or death) of minority languages such as Gaelic and Breton.

Series Statement

Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 9

Uniform Title

Cross-cultural perspectives on women ; v. 9.

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Contents

Preface / Shirley Ardener -- 1. Women and Second-Language Use: An Introduction / Pauline Burton -- 2. Open Castilian, Closed Aymara? Bilingual Women in the Yungas of La Paz (Bolivia) / Alison Spedding -- 3. The Presence and Absence of Speech in the Communication of Gender / Penelope Harvey -- 4. Casual Chat and Ethnic Identity: Women's Second-Language Use among Buryats in the USSR / Caroline Humphrey -- 5. Women and Second-Language Knowledge in Rural Soviet Georgia: An Outline / Nina Chinchaladze and Tamara Dragadze -- 6. Women and Linguistic Innovation in Brittany / Maryon McDonald -- 7. The 'Death' of East Sutherland Gaelic: Death by Women? / Evi Constantinidou -- 8. French: No One's Language, Therefore Everyone's Language: Convent Speech in Lower Zaire / Joan F. Burke -- 9. Language and Diaspora: The Use of Portuguese, English and Konkani by Catholic Goan Women / Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes -- 10. A Note on My Experience as a Student, a Teacher and an Interpreter of English in China / Liu Hong.
11. Forging a Bilingual Identity: A Writer's Testimony / Ketaki Kushari Dyson -- 12. Engendering Language Difference / Elizabeth Tonkin.

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93026394

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Columbia University Libraries