British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing
Linguistic and Social Influences Affecting ‘They’ and ‘He’
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Introduction
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.
Keywords
Grammar socio-linguistics epicene pronouns he they BE06 Corpus feminism second-wave feminism gender studies English history history of literature language pronouns reform reforms syntactic tradition
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137332738
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-46186-8
- Online ISBN 978-1-137-33273-8
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