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Generic pronouns and their influence on the speakers' language awareness
… gender through natural gender assignment. The generic pronoun encoded in English is the pronoun he, which next to its secondary meaning of the generic also has the primary meaning of the third person masculine singular. Following the moderate version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, English …
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Exploring the function and distribution of generic pronouns: The example of German man and du
This work examines the research to date on generic pronouns – that is, items such as English one and German man – and suggests how this can be advanced through empirical means. Issues of reference, deixis and pragmatic function are critically discussed from the persectives of cognitive linguistics, …
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Ideology, Gender Roles, and Pronominal Choice: A sociolinguistic analysis of the use of English third person generic pronouns by native speakers of Arabic
… investigation of the use of four English generic pronouns (he, she, he or she, singular they) by Arabic-speaking second language learners of English. This study takes a different approach to the investigation of second language (L2) acquisition and use by examining the use of L2 as a …