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Gender and evaluation in contemporary American English: A corpus study based on pronominal and nominal expressions with male and female reference Cover

Gender and evaluation in contemporary American English: A corpus study based on pronominal and nominal expressions with male and female reference

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|May 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/icame-2023-0003 | Journal eISSN: 1502-5462 | Journal ISSN: 0801-5775
Language: English
Page range: 39 - 61
Submitted on: Oct 9, 2022
Accepted on: Feb 1, 2023
Published on: May 1, 2023
Published by: Uppsala University, Department of English
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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