When people insist on having custom personal pronouns, they are increasing the cognitive load required for casual conversation. You don’t have to remember that person’s name, but they are expecting you to remember a piece of information about them; and refer to them by that piece of informa...
Sometimes the two gendered pronouns are combined in writing as “s/he” or “(s)he.” However, having a large number of these spellings in the paper can be distracting. This is particularly true if the author then goes on to write “his/her” ...
'Lexical' arguments are arguments expressed by full NPs, rather than by pronouns or zero.) Du Bois seems to conceive of these 'constraints' as more than statistical tendencies, but rather as 'resources for information management' (p. 40 of his introductory chapter), that is, as maxims that...
“Any policy that requires Ms. Ricard to refer to a student by a gendered, non-binary, or plural pronoun (e.g., he/him, she/her, they/them, zhe/zher, etc.) or salutation (Mr., Miss, Ms.) or other gendered language that is different from the student’s biological sex actively vi...