The Use of Gender Markers in Animals - As Demonstrated by Issues of National Geographic

This book is a contribution to the study of the linguistic concept of gender. It focuses on the problem of assigning gender to animal nouns. This problem is topical in view of the fact that in present-day English, gender is a marginal grammatical category and therefore recedes into the background in descriptions of today's English. Grammatical gender is a rare topic of research, scientific discussions or papers. The detailed analysis of gender assignment to animal names is based on two subcorpora: the English edition of National Geographic and the English edition of the Journal of Zoology. The book closes with a contrastive analysis of gender markers.

List of contents

Contents: Gender - Animal nouns - Present-day English - National Geographic - Journal of Zoology - Gender markers - Gender assignment.

About the author

Ludmila Zemková is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia, ¿eské Bud¿jovice. She studied at the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University in Brno. Her research interests include the linguistic concept of gender and gender in present-day English.

Product details

• Authors: Ludmila Zemková
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783631674574
• ISBN: 978-3-631-67457-4
• No. of pages: 169
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 21 mm x 214 mm
• Weight: 330 g
• Series: Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft; Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft; DASK - Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Langu; DASK ¿ Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics