The article analyses the category of gender in English and Romanian. Unusual, not motivated and even illogical use of the masculine, feminine or neuter gender in English is often related to personification, ‘upgrading’ or ...

In the article, we analyze the metaphoric associations which are the basis for the personification of countries in English. We try to find out in what discourse types countries and cities are personalized. We identify the ...

Speakers and writers of English can choose whether to mark a high level of sentience in a nonhuman animal by selecting the human and gendered terms (he, she, who) rather than the inanimate and ungendered terms (it, which). ...