The Use of Gender Markers in Animals: As Demonstrated by Issues of National Geographic
The author analyses gender assignment to animal nouns. She looks at grammarians' treatment of gender in present-day English and surveys a corpus of National Geographic and the Journal of Zoology.
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The Use of Gender Markers in Animals: As Demonstrated by Issues of National Geographic
The author analyses gender assignment to animal nouns. She looks at grammarians' treatment of gender in present-day English and surveys a corpus of National Geographic and the Journal of Zoology.
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The Use of Gender Markers in Animals: As Demonstrated by Issues of National Geographic

The Use of Gender Markers in Animals: As Demonstrated by Issues of National Geographic

by Ludmila Zemková
The Use of Gender Markers in Animals: As Demonstrated by Issues of National Geographic

The Use of Gender Markers in Animals: As Demonstrated by Issues of National Geographic

by Ludmila Zemková

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Overview

The author analyses gender assignment to animal nouns. She looks at grammarians' treatment of gender in present-day English and surveys a corpus of National Geographic and the Journal of Zoology.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783631674574
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 02/27/2016
Series: DASK - Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture , #112
Pages: 169
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ludmila Zemková is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice. She studied at the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University in Brno. Her research interests include the linguistic concept of gender and gender in present-day English.

Table of Contents

Contents: Gender – Animal nouns – Present-day English – National GeographicJournal of Zoology – Gender markers – Gender assignment.
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