Paterson, Laura Louise,

British pronoun use, prescription, and processing linguistic and social influences affecting'They' and'He' / [electronic resource] : by Laura Louise Paterson. - 202 pages : online resource.

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.

9781137332738

10.1057/9781137332738 doi


Linguistics.
Feminist theory.
Sociolinguistics.
Sociology.
Sex (Psychology).
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Gender Studies.
Feminism.