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For over four decades feminist linguists and philosophers of language have addressed the semantic, cognitive, and political factors associated with gender asymmetries in nominal and pronominal choice (see Miller & Swift, 1977 for an early survey and Saul, 2017 for a recent overview). The sociolinguistic spotlight has focused on the history, extent, and implications of the prescriptively sanctioned use of man and he for sex-neutral reference—he/man language in Martyna (1980)’s term. Bare singular and simple indefinite man in (1a, b) exemplify this use, while the bare singulars in (2) yield the male-specific meaning exhibited by the man or that man. |
