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Gender in Modern English : The System and its Uses /
This study provides an extensive database for future research on gender and a detailed discussion of the expressive effects produced by means of this grammatical category. By drawing a clear line between the denotatum and the designatum and viewing gender as part of the solution to the problem of gi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2022
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| Colección: | Cahiers de psychomecanique du langage.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This study provides an extensive database for future research on gender and a detailed discussion of the expressive effects produced by means of this grammatical category. By drawing a clear line between the denotatum and the designatum and viewing gender as part of the solution to the problem of giving linguistic representation to a mental construal of a spatial nature, this study avoids one of the recurrent stumbling blocks which has hindered research -- the temptation to define a grammatical category using biological parameters. The evidence presented shows that gender is not a representation of the presence or absence of sex, human traits, or even personality, but rather the sign of a more abstract mental operation, that which consists in defining the contained space, the form which is implied by any notional content construed in the nominal domain. |
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| Notas: | "Publies par le Fonds Gustave Guillaume et le Departement de langues, linguistiques et traduction de l'Universite Laval"--Cover. Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (314 pages): illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-301) . |
| ISBN: | 9782763756561 |
| Acceso: | Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |