British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing
Linguistic and Social Influences Affecting 'They' and 'He'| By: | L. Paterson |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137332721 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137332738 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.