kindred
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Introduction,ading a text. However, the personal pronouns which are used in reference to animate beings (human or otherwise) — words such as, ., and . — can be rather sneaky. When you do not know whether a person is male or female, what word would you choose to refer to them? In the example sentences below, whic
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激怒
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Epicenes in the Twenty-First Century, qualitative methods of analysis. The general age of the studies considered in Chapter 1 highlighted the fact that there is very little data available on epicene use in written British English in the twenty-first century. In order to get a clearer picture of current epicene usage, and ascertain whet
人类
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Epicenes and Social Movements,ronouns and antecedents. However, also apparent were the links between language-external factors and pronoun development, giving the impression that the use of singular . and generic . is not merely an issue of grammatical agreement. This chapter focuses on con-textualising the language-internal iss
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Prescriptions, Standards, and Epicenes,English, this chapter turns its attention to epicene prescriptions and the issues noted in Chapter 3. The aim here is to bring research on epicene prescriptions in grammar books up to date and address the hypothesis that grammars published at the start of the twenty-first century will continue the t
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Conclusion, evident in previous research. As there has only been a limited amount of research on epicene pronouns in the last 10–20 years, with most works drawing upon studies that are even older than this, the topic had become stale. One potential reason for this state of affairs is that the many studies on e
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Inscrutable
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Conclusion,Indeed, in many cases the results presented here show that the rejection of generic ., which was called for by those opposed to the notion of a generic masculine, such as Bodine and others, has occurred. Whilst the (perhaps) corresponding formal endorsement of singular . is not yet the norm, its ack