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Constructing collectivity : 'we' across languages and contexts / edited by Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Pragmatics & beyond new series ; 239.
- Pragmatics & beyond new series (P&BNS), 0922-842X ; volume 239
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pragmatics.
- Semantics.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (365 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This chapter examines the referential domain, communicative function and perlocutionary effect of the first person plural pronoun we in dialogic and monologic British political discourse. Its methodological framework is an integrated one, combining interactional sociolinguistics, in particular co-occurrence and conversational inference, with quantitative and qualitative corpus analysis. The first part presents the methodological framework, focussing on the two types of discourse and the genre-specific distribution of self-references expressing collectivity considering the pronoun we<
- Contents:
- part I. Semantic and pragmatic perspectives on 'we'
- part II. Interactional perspectives on 'we'
- part III. Genre-specific perspectives on 'we.'
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 27, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9781461957997
- 1461957990
- 9789027270849
- 9027270848
- OCLC:
- 870892604
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