Cognitive Sources of Gender Categorization in the System of English Personal Pronouns
This article is devoted to the peculiarities of gender categorization of objects and phenomena of reality expressed by the category of gender of pronouns. The problem of functioning of pronouns of the 3d person sing. is being solved on the basis of cognitive linguistics, from the point of which any linguistic research is impossible without taking into account a personal perception, empirical experience accumulated during all person’s life and social, physical and language environment. The gender category reflects a definite phenomenological knowledge (animate – inanimate, active – passive objects, person – non-person, masculine – feminine sex) of a language speaker who is treated as a subject of perception, a “naive” categorist of a surrounding reality
Issue: 4, 2007
Series of issue: Humanities (Philology)
Rubric: Modern Trends in Germanic Studies
Pages: 5 — 10
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