British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing by L Paterson

British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing by L Paterson

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.

"Laura Louise Paterson's book entitled British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing gives a very compelling, lucid and in-depth analysis of the term epicene pronoun, which is defined as a pronoun that does not convey gender or sex information, and is coindexed with a singular noun phrase referring to an animate being" - Masculinities Journal

Laura Louise Paterson is a Teaching Fellow in English Language at The University of Leeds, UK. Her previous works include a diachronic study of generic he and singular they and an analysis of the English Language element of the UK National Curriculum. Her forthcoming publications focus on children's pronouns and online sociolinguistic networks.

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ISBN 13	9781349461868
ISBN 10	1349461865
Title	British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing
Author	L Paterson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	2014-01-01
Number of pages	192
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