British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing

Download or read book British Pronoun Use, Prescription, and Processing written by L. Paterson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.