The Use of Gender Markers in Animals: As Demonstrated by Issues of National Geographic (DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / … Research in Language and Culture Book 112)

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