Gender in Modern English : The System and Its Uses

• Autore: Morris Lori <1959->
• Pubblicazione: Quebec : , : Les Presses de l'Université Laval, , 2021; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 pages)
• Disciplina: 429.55
• Soggetto topico: English language - Pronoun; English language - Gender
• Altri autori: DuffleyPatrick J
• Note generali: "Publies par le Fonds Gustave Guillaume et le Departement de langues, linguistiques et traduction de l'Universite Laval"--Cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-301) .
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 notional content construed in the nominal domain.
• Altri titoli varianti: Gender in Modern English
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender in Modern English
• ISBN: 2-7637-5656-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910862094203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cahiers de Psychomécanique du Langage