The Referential Ambiguity of Personal Pronouns and Its Pragmatic Consequences
Author: Barbara DeCock
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Published: 2016
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The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns
Author: Laure Gardelle
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2015-11-15
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9027267839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The Politics of Person Reference
Author: Naomi Truan
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2021-10-15
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9027260184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, the first systematic exploration of the third person in English, German, and French, takes a fresh look at person reference within the realm of political discourse. By focusing on the newly refined speech role of the target, attention is given to the continuity between second and third grammatical persons as a system. The role played by third-person forms in creating and maintaining interpersonal relationships in discourse has been surprisingly overlooked. Until now, third-person forms have overwhelmingly been considered as referring to the absent, i.e. to someone outside the communication situation, other than the speaker or the hearer: the “nonperson”. By broadening the scope and finally integrating the third person, we come to understand The Politics of Person Reference fully, and to see the strategic, argumentative, and dialogical nature of the act of referring to other discourse participants, understood as the act of creating new referents.
Explorations in Internet Pragmatics
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-05-23
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9004694455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume takes the reader on an exploration in the dynamics underlying digital interaction. The chapters investigate the ways in which individuals shape and interpret intentions, construct identities, and engage in interpersonal exchanges. Online platforms from forums and Wikipedia to Periscope, YouTube and WhatsApp are approached with multifaceted qualitative methods. Aside from English, languages studied include Bangla, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Lithuanian, and Norwegian. The range of phenomena, platforms and languages shed light on the complex and nuanced ways of communication in digital spaces.
The Stylistics of ‘You'
Author: Sandrine Sorlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-01-13
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1108833020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncluding examples from a broad range of sources, this book explores the pragmatic functions and effects of 'you' across time, genre and medium, to provide an encompassing theoretical framework for the second-person pronoun. With its unique inter-disciplinary perspective, it will interest students and scholars of both linguistics and literature.
The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports
Author: Stephanie Schnurr
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-11-20
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 3110789884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading the Song of Songs in a #MeToo Era
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-06-26
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9004543937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Song of Songs is the only book of the Bible to privilege the voice of a woman, and its poetry of love and eroticism also bears witness to violence. How do the contemporary #MeToo movement and other movements of protest and accountability renew questions about women, gender, sex, and the problematic of the public at the heart of this ancient poetry? This edited volume seeks to reinvigorate feminist scholarship on the Song by exploring diverse contexts of reading, from Akkadian love lyrics, to Hildegard of Bingen, to Marc Chagall.
The Impact of Pronominal Form on Interpretation
Author: Patrick Grosz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-04-11
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1614517010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe interplay between the interpretation of pronouns (e.g. bound/referential) and their form (e.g. null/overt) is still ill-understood. This volume has a cross-linguistic orientation with in-depth investigations of more than 10 different languages. It unites researchers from the linguistic subfields of syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics, thus furthering dialogue with the goal of shedding new light on the form/interpretation connection.
Pronouns in Literature
Author: Alison Gibbons
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-01-04
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1349953172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who together offer cutting-edge insights into the complex roles, functions, and effects of pronouns in literary texts. The book engages with a range of text-types, including poetry, drama, and prose from different periods and regions, in English and in translation. Beginning with analyses of the first-person pronoun, it moves onto studies of the subject dynamics of first- and second-person, before considering plural modes of narration and how pronoun use can help to disperse narrative perspective. The volume then debates the functional constraints of pronouns in fictional contexts and finally reflects upon the theoretical advancements presented in the collection. This innovative volume will appeal to students and scholars of linguistics, stylistics and cognitive poetics, narratology, theoretical and applied linguistics, psychology and literary criticism.
The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems
Author: Paul Bouissac
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2019-07-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9027262543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersonal pronouns have a special status in languages. As indexical tools they are the means by which languages and persons intimately interface with each other within a particular social structure. Pronouns involve more than mere grammatical functions in live communication acts. They variously signal the gender of speakers as parts of utterances or in their anaphoric roles. They also prominently indicate with a range of degrees the kind of social relationships that hold between speakers from intimacy to indifference, from dominance to submission, and from solidarity to hostility. Languages greatly vary in the number of pronouns and other address terms they offer to their users with a distinct range of social values. Children learn their relative position in their family and in their society through the “correct” use of pronouns. When languages come into contact because of population migrations or through the process of translation, pronouns are the most sensitive zone of tension both psychologically and politically. This volume endeavours to probe the comparative pragmatics of pronominal systems as social processes in a representative set from different language families and cultural areas.
