Bilingual Women: Anthropological Approaches to Second-Language Use, Vol. 9
This book studies women's language use in bilingual or multi-lingual cultural situations. The authors - social anthropologists, language teachers, and interpreters cover a wide variety of geographical and linguistic situations, from the death of Gaelic in the Outer Hebrides, to the use of Spanish by Quechua and Aymara women in the Andes. Certain common themes emerge: dominant and sub-dominant languages, women's use of them; ambivalent attitudes towards women as translators, interpreters and...
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This book studies women's language use in bilingual or multi-lingual cultural situations. The authors - social anthropologists, language teachers, and interpreters cover a wide variety of geographical and linguistic situations, from the death of Gaelic in the Outer Hebrides, to the use of Spanish by Quechua and Aymara women in the Andes. Certain common themes emerge: dominant and sub-dominant languages, women's use of them; 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.
Preface1Women and Second-Language Use: An Introduction12Open Castilian, Closed Aymara? Bilingual Women in the Yungas of La Paz (Bolivia)303The Presence and Absence of Speech in the Communication of Gender444Casual Chat and Ethnic Identity: Women's Second-Language Use among Buryats in the USSR655Women and Second-Language Knowledge in Rural Soviet Georgia: An Outline806Women and Linguistic Innovation in Brittany857The 'Death' of East Sutherland Gaelic: Death by Women?1118French: No One's Language, Therefore Everyone's Language: Convent Speech in Lower Zaire1289Language and Diaspora: The Use of Portuguese, English and Konkani by Catholic Goan Women14910A Note on My Experience as a Student, a Teacher and an Interpreter of English in China16711Forging a Bilingual Identity: A Writer's Testimony17012Engendering Language Difference186Index193
