Gendered inanimates in Shetland dialect

IF 0.8 4区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

English World-Wide Pub Date : 2019-09-24 DOI:10.1075/eww.00032.vel

V. Velupillai

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Abstract

The use of gendered pronouns with inanimate noun referents, such as referring to line and pipe as she and to bag or lid as he, has been described as typical for Shetland dialect. In light of recent discussion on the shift from Shetland dialect to Standard English, presumably triggered by the sociodemographic changes brought on by the oil industry, this study investigates the gender system in both the pre-oil and post-oil speech of the variety. Using a database of over 368,000 words of oral history material and a sample of elicited contemporary speech, it is shown that the choice of gender correlates with a number of linguistic and social variables. Furthermore, the study shows that the use of gendered pronouns with inanimate nouns is a robust and stable feature of contemporary Shetland dialect.

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设得兰方言中的无生命生物

性别代词与无生命名词指代词的使用，如将线和管指代为she，将袋或盖指代为he，被描述为设得兰方言的典型用法。鉴于最近关于设得兰方言向标准英语转变的讨论，可能是由石油行业带来的社会人口结构变化引发的，本研究调查了石油开采前和石油开采后各种语言中的性别系统。使用一个包含368000多字口述历史材料的数据库和一个引发的当代言语样本，研究表明，性别选择与许多语言和社会变量相关。此外，研究表明，性别代词与无生命名词的使用是当代设得兰方言的一个强大而稳定的特征。

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