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UNINA9910862094203321 |
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Autore |
Morris Lori <1959-> |
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Titolo |
Gender in Modern English : The System and Its Uses |
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Quebec : , : Les Presses de l'Université Laval, , 2021 |
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©2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (316 pages) |
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Collana |
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Cahiers de Psychomécanique du Langage |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Pronoun |
English language - Gender |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"Publies par le Fonds Gustave Guillaume et le Departement de langues, linguistiques et traduction de l'Universite Laval"--Cover. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-301) . |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Editor’s Note -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Posing the Problem -- Theoretical Approaches to Gender -- Pronoun Gender: Looking for the System in the Personal Pronouns -- What is it? -- Gender in the Substantive -- Prospects for Pronominal Gender Research -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: The Pronoun Questionnaire -- Appendix B: A Comparison of the Percentage of Biologically Inanimate Denotata Associated With SHE and with HE -- Appendix C: A Comparison of the Percentage of Biologically Inanimate Denotata Associated with SHE and HE by Women and by Men in the 19+ Age Group -- Bibliography of Reference Works Consulted |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This study provides an extensive database for future research on gender and a detailed discussion of the expressive effects produced by means of this grammatical category. By drawing a clear line between the denotatum and the designatum and viewing gender as part of the solution to the problem of giving linguistic representation to a mental construal of a spatial nature, this study avoids one of the recurrent stumbling blocks which has hindered research -- the temptation to define a grammatical category using biological parameters. The evidence presented shows that gender is not a representation of the presence or absence of sex, human traits, or even personality, but rather the sign of a more abstract mental operation, that which consists in defining the contained space, the form which is implied by any |
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