She, he, not it: Language, personal pronouns, and animal advocacy

The move away from binary labels of he/she as all-encompassing terms, determined at birth, represents a tidal change in how humans are categorized. However, when it comes to animals other than humans, change appears only as drops in the linguistic bucket with slow progress in recognizing them as ind...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Merskin Debra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-06-01
Series:Journal of World Languages
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2022-0018