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Publication details [#31930]

Sunderland, Jane. 1991. The decline of man. Journal of Pragmatics 16 (6) : 505–522.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interpretation | language use | meaning | sexism

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines diachronic change in the meaning, use and interpretation of 'man-words' in the context of the on-going 'sexist language' debate of the last two decades.