Gender in Modern English : The System and Its Uses / Lori Morris ; editor, Patrick Duffley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Lori, 1959- author.

Contributor:

Duffley, Patrick, editor.

Series:

Cahiers de psychomécanique du langage.

Cahiers de Psychomécanique du Langage Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Gender.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Québec : Les Presses de l'Université Laval, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

"Publies par le Fonds Gustave Guillaume et le Departement de langues, linguistiques et traduction de l'Universite Laval"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9782763756561

2763756565

OCLC:

1345512517