Collection(s) : Cahiers de psychomécanique du langage
Paru le 01/02/2022 | Broché 314 pages
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sous la direction de , Patrick J. Duffley
This study provides an extensive database for future research on gender and a detailed discussion of the expressive effects produced by means of this grammatical category. By drawing a clear line between the denotatum and the designatum and viewing gender as part of the solution to the problem of giving linguistic representation to a mental construal of a spatial nature, this study avoids one of the recurrent stumbling blocks which has hindered research – the temptation to define a grammatical category using biological parameters. The evidence presented shows that gender is not a representation of the presence or absence of sex, human traits, or even personality, but rather the sign of a more abstract mental operation, that which consists in defining the contained space, the form which is implied by any notional content construed in the nominal domain.
Doctor in Linguistics from Laval University, Lori Morris joined the Department of Linguistics at UQAM in 2002. There she worked in the areas of second language teaching, language acquisition and aboriginal literacy. She passed away on February 27, 2017.
