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.