E-raamat: What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She

"Dennis Barons Whats Your Pronoun? is a delightful account of the search for what Baron, a professor of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois, calls the missing word: a third person singular, gender-neutral pronoun." -- Amia Srinivasan - London Review of Books "Dennis Baron has spent years researching the quest for a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun in English. Lively, accessible and full of fascinating details, Whats Your Pronoun? will appeal to anyone with an interest in linguistic and cultural history." -- Deborah Cameron, Worcester College, University of Oxford "Into the breach comes a useful corrective in the form of Dennis Baron's well-timed new book, "What's Your Pronoun?"" -- The Economist "In this learned and entertaining book, Dennis Baron provides vital historical context to today's impassioned debates over gender-neutral and non-binary pronouns... Baron knows what he's talking about and provides a much-needed dose of scholarship leavened with good sense in the language wars. The book is timely, for pronouns are suddenly politically sexy." -- The Times "A scrupulous and absorbing survey. Its great virtue is to show that these issues are nothing new This scholarly assiduousness, though, also makes him the ideal pilot through these contentious political-linguistic waters. If you want to know why more people are asking whats your pronoun? then you (singular or plural) should read this book." -- Joe Moran - The New York Times Book Review "His [ Dennis Baron's] new book, What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She is a meticulous, consummate dissection of the pronoun wars..." -- Attitude