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This contribution explores the use of the formal resources of English (third-person singular pronouns in anaphora, sex-sensitive collocations) for "assigned gender" in a corpus of letters written by settlers of the Great Plains of the United States in the last decades of the nineteenth cen...

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Weitere Verfasser: Dossena, Marina, 1961-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Schriftenreihe:Advances in historical sociolinguistics ; v. 4.
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Zusammenfassung:This contribution explores the use of the formal resources of English (third-person singular pronouns in anaphora, sex-sensitive collocations) for "assigned gender" in a corpus of letters written by settlers of the Great Plains of the United States in the last decades of the nineteenth century. The textual work is introduced by a discussion of significant theoretical aspects of the grammatical category of gender and of certain methodological issues - particularly "Units of Anaphoric Reference". Although assigned gender has been approached from a general perspective, particular attention has be
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Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027268877
9027268878
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9781322979083
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9789027200839
ISSN:2214-1057 ;

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