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Publication details [#28735]

Zoubir-Shaw, Sadia. 1996. Gender: Perception of attributes in inanimate referents. ITL 111 - 112 : 61–85.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attributiveness | gender | perception1 | referent | women's vs. men's language

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

ISBN

0019-0810

Journal WWW

benjamins.com/catalog/itl

Annotation

This paper deals with the classification of English inanimate referents, commonly perceived as neuter, into feminine or masculine categories by female and male American speakers.