The pragmatics of personal pronouns / edited by Laure Gardelle, ENS de Lyon, UMR ICAR ; Sandrine Sorlin, Aix-Marseille University, LERMA, IUF.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gardelle, Laure, editor.

Sorlin, Sandrine, editor.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; 171.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; 171

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Pronoun.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Parts of speech.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents new research on the pragmatics of personal pronouns. Whereas personal pronouns used to have a reputation of poor substitutes for full NP’s, recent research shows that personal pronouns are a fundamental, if not universal, category, whose pragmatics is central to their understanding. For instance, personal pronouns may indicate attentional continuity or social deixis, and take on genre-specific pragmatic effects. The authors of the present collection investigate such effects and analyse competing forms in context (e.g. she / her in subject position), as well as their pragmatic functions in an extensive range of genres such as advertising, TV series, charity appeals, mother/child interaction or computer-mediated communication. Moreover, one section is devoted to the pragmatics of antecedentless pronouns and so-called ‘impersonal’ personal forms. The volume will be of interest to both scholars and students interested in the pragmatics of functional words.

Contents:

The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Personal pronouns; 1. A linguistic definition of personal pronouns; 1.1 What is a personal pronoun?; 1.2 Personal pronouns as fundamental elements in linguistic systems; 2. The function of personal pronouns: The centrality of pragmatics; 2.1 The grammatical tradition: From impoverished substitutes to elements with a positive pragmatic contribution; 2.2 A second fundamental function of personal pronouns: Social deixis; 3. Genre-specific pragmatic effects

'Loquor, ergo sum'References; 'You' and 'I' in charity fundraising appeals; 1. Introduction; 2. Initial thoughts on 'I' and 'you'; 2.1 Pronoun use in charity fundraising texts: Apparent assumptions and possible problems; 2.2 The 'I'-'you' dyad; 2.3 The paradoxical push and pull of the 'you'; 3. Ontological slippage; 3.1 Double (double) deixis; 3.2 Shifting voices; 3.3 Switching roles; 4. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Breaking the fourth wall; 1. Introduction; 2. The diverse references of the second person pronoun: Other- or ego-oriented?; 2.1 Theatrical you

2. 2 Impersonalized you

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027267832

9027267839

OCLC:

919452395