The role of Russian grammatical gender in the perception of first-person singular English texts by Russian speakers of English

Thesis

Previous research into effects of grammatical gender on perception among speakers of different languages has mostly investigated object categorisation. Seemingly no research has been conducted into whether grammatical gender can affect the perception of the sex of the narrator of an English text. The present mixed-methods study explored whether the category of the grammatical gender of nouns in the Russian language provides a predictive basis for the judgments of Russian speakers of Englis...

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Authors: Yeshpanov, R

• Type of award: MSc
• Level of award: Masters
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Russian; grammatical gender; gender bias; gender; sex; male bias; English; first-person singular