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Publication details [#65925]

Burnett, Heather and Olivier Bonami. 2019. Linguistic prescription, ideological structure, and the actuation of linguistic changes: Grammatical gender in French parliamentary debates. Language in Society 48 (1) : 65–93.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | grammar1 | ideology | parliamentary debate | women's language

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This quantitative inquiry of the linguistic and social factors setting grammatical gender use regarding women, centering on variation in French parliamentiary debates, states that linguistic regulations are only successful if they rest on extant ideologies.