Free from gender agreement and linguistic gender markers, the Chinese language system
does not have any inflexion, derivation, infix, or prefix. Thus, it may give a false impression …

Camilla Bettoni is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Verona, Italy. Her main
research areas are language contact, language maintenance and language shift, language …

With the boom of networked digital communication, verbal misogyny permeates Chinese
social media, reflecting and reinforcing a sexist gender order in society at large. At the same …

Different from Romanized languages with gender marker, the Chinese language does not
have inflections in nouns, adjectives and verbs when the subject is a female. Instead, a …

This study investigates the use of an emergent pejorative “蝻” nǎn by Chinese micro-
blogging users on Weibo. The phonetic part “南” nán (south) of “蝻”(nymph of locust—NoL) …

This paper presents an exploratory study on the usage of epicene pronouns in the speech of
Chinese EL2 students, who were undertaking a Master's programme in the UK. The reasons …

This chapter examines how gendered language became a site of linguistic and
sociopolitical debate in modern Chinese history. In doing so, it discusses how different sites …

Generally recognized as one of the four masterworks of Ming fiction, Jin Ping Mei 金瓶梅
(1617) is one of the earliest premodern Chinese vernacular texts introduced to Anglophone …

Informed by existing theoretical outcomes at the intersection of gender and translation
studies, this dissertation analyses the ways in which gender-based violence and female …

Language Teachers and Learners is to introduce fundamental linguistic components of
Mandarin Chinese that facilitate and enhance the teaching and learning of Chinese as a …