Non-sexist Language Policy and the Rise (and Fall?) of Combined Pronouns in British and American Written English

IF 0.9 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-07-18 DOI:10.1177/0075424220938949
Laura L. Paterson
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This paper focuses on the use of combined pronouns (s/he, his or her, him/her, etc.) as an example of late twentieth-century non-sexist language reform which had an overt democratizing aim. Within the scope of second-wave feminism, the use of combined pronouns increased the visibility of women in discourse by encouraging the use of feminine pronouns (she, her, hers) alongside masculine pronouns (he, him, his). Despite their promotion, however, the use of combined pronouns is relatively rare. This paper uses the LOB and Brown families of corpora to diachronically and synchronically study patterns in the use of combined pronouns in written American (AmE) and British English (BrE) from the 1930s to the early 2000s. The analysis not only determines what forms these patterns take, but questions whether combined pronouns are influenced by (a combination of) syntax and/or semantics, and questions whether combined pronouns are really democratic at all.
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非性别歧视的语言政策与英美书面英语中组合代词的兴衰
本文将重点放在组合代词(s/he, his或her, him/her等)的使用上,作为20世纪后期具有明显民主化目标的非性别歧视语言改革的一个例子。在第二波女权主义的范围内,通过鼓励使用女性代词(she, her, hers)和男性代词(he, him, his),组合代词的使用增加了女性在话语中的可见度。然而,尽管它们得到了推广,但组合代词的使用相对较少。本文利用LOB语料库和Brown语料库对20世纪30年代至21世纪初美国和英国书面英语中组合代词的使用模式进行了历时性和共时性研究。分析不仅决定了这些模式的形式,而且还质疑组合代词是否受到语法和/或语义(组合)的影响,以及组合代词是否真的民主。
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