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British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing: Linguistic and Social Influences Affecting 'they' and 'he'

British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing: Linguistic and Social Influences Affecting 'they' and 'he'

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LinguisticsGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1349461865
ISBN13: 9781349461868
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 1 2014
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This study considers the use of they and he for generic reference in post-2000 written British English. The analysis is framed by a consideration of language-internal factors, such as syntactic agreement, and language-external factors, which include traditional grammatical prescriptivism and the language reforms resulting from second-wave feminism.

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