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- Title
[En] gendering the 'I': The First-Person Pronoun, Gender, and Context.
- Authors
Paul, Sandip; Muhammad, Ahmad Abdullah Salih
- Abstract
The first-person pronoun I appears neuter in the English language but it generates certain semiotic and linguistic problems. One of them is its dual system of reference. In a conversation, the pronoun I stands for both the speaker or referee and a referent or the grammatical unit. In a wider context of Linguistics, Gender-studies, Literary criticism, Discourse analysis, and Conversation analysis the paper investigates the relation between the referent I and the referee I and argues that the gender of the speaker or referee I endows the referent I with a gendered signification.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language; PRONOUNS (Grammar); DISCOURSE analysis; LITERARY criticism; CONVERSATION analysis
- Publication
ESSE Messenger, 2020, Vol 29, Issue 1, p133
- ISSN
2518-3567
- Publication type
Article