The aim of this article is to investigate gender categorisation in sequences that introduce referents by their occupational titles. The study addresses the following three questions: (1) What can the systematic patterns in authentic conversation tell us about the use of gender in Icelandic? (2) What is the distribution of labour between grammatical and referential gender? (3) Does the mismatch between grammatical and referential gender cause any problems in the conversation? The data used come from 10 hours and 22 minutes of conversation recorded between 1996 and 2018 comprising everyday conversations, phone calls, radio interviews about current affairs, moderated political debates and spontaneous speeches in the parliament. In total, 55 sequences of occupational titles were identified in the data. The analysis shows that when the gender of the referent is known to the speaker, the choice of pronoun is based on the referential gender, but when the gender is unknown or the main referent is hypothetical, the speaker uses a pronoun that matches the grammatical gender of the noun. Finally, the data show that the choice of pronoun rarely triggers repairs.

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职业称谓和人称代词：hann和hún是冰岛语对话中的后续形式

本文旨在调查按职业名称介绍被推荐人的序列中的性别分类。该研究解决了以下三个问题：（1）真实对话中的系统模式可以告诉我们有关冰岛人使用性别的信息吗？（2）语法性别和指称性别之间的劳动分布是什么？（3）语法性别和指称性别之间的不匹配是否会引起对话中的任何问题？所使用的数据来自1996年至2018年之间记录的10小时22分钟的对话，包括日常对话，电话，有关时事的电台采访，主持的政治辩论和议会的自发演讲。数据中总共确定了55个职业名称序列。分析表明，当说话人知道被指性别时，代词的选择是基于指称性别，但是当性别未知或主要指称是假设时，说话人会使用与语法性别相匹配的代词名词的 最后，数据表明代词的选择很少触发修复。