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Darrera modificació: 2019-01-18
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Diego Rodríguez, Irene, "A study of assigned gender in astrological vocabulary", dins: Hernández, María Beatriz - Brito, Manuel - Monterrey, Tomás (eds.), Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain, La Laguna, Universidad de La Laguna, 2018, pp. 227-235.
- Resum
- This paper aims to analyse the gender of several astrological terms in various ME texts in order to study gender variation from a diachronic point of view. I will concentrate on the nouns moon and sun. Determiners and pronouns agree with the nouns they are referring to and they act as distinctive gender markers. Therefore, it is possible to find a variety of masculine anaphoric and cataphoric references for the OE masculine <mona> and feminine ones for the OE noun <sunne>. However, when addressing astrological terms, the assignment of a different gender is also likely, as it depends “on the attitude towards the referent” (Fernández-Domínguez 2017, 54). This fact is studied and illustrated with examples taken from a corpus containing several parallel versions of Þe Booke of Ypocras and three more lunaries from the Middle English Medical Texts Corpus. The results of this study not only reveal that the gender assigned to astrological terms is not invariable, but it also provides an explanation of the different contexts and reasons why one gender or another is used.
- Matèries
- Astronomia i astrologia
Lexicografia
Lèxic
Anglès
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/38167087/A_Study_of_Assign ...
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