British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing
L. Paterson
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9781349461868
- ISBN-10
- 1349461865
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2014
- Publication date
- 2014-01-01
- Pages
- 192
- Dimensions
- 216x140x