Research Note

Speaker-referent gender indexicality

Bibliographic Data

ID7903441
AuthorsL Fleming (0000-0003-3776-8390, Université de Montréal, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume44
Issue3
Pages425-434
Publication date2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404515000251
OpenAlexW1462050832
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited9

Haas's (1944) typology of nonreferential gender indexicality attested three basic varieties: speaker indexing, addressee indexing, and ‘mixed’ (or relational) speaker-addressee gender indexing. In an earlier publication in Language in Society this author adopted the same framework for the treatment of a large sample of cases of categorical gender indexicality. However, subsequent review of cases where gender indexicality seemingly interacts with sex-based semantic gender suggests that Haas' typology is incomplete. A relational speaker-referent indexing type is proposed. Focusing on gender indexicality in Chiquitano (Bolivia) and Yanyuwa (Australia), the author argues that these cases have been erroneously treated as systems in which speaker gender is indexed in the denotation of referent gender. It is shown that a more parsimonious analysis can account for these cases by means of a single purely pragmatic gender feature distributed over a relational speaker-referent indexical focus. (Gender, indexicality, deixis

Deixis · Indexicality · Linguistics · Referent · Sociology · Typology · Anthropology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies in Language · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy · Psychology

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