Lisa Deringer

List of John Benjamins publications for which Lisa Deringer plays a role.

Article

Deringer, Lisa, Volker Gast, Florian Haas and Olga Rudolf 2015 Chapter 15. Impersonal uses of the second person singular and generalized empathy: An exploratory corpus study of English, German and RussianThe Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns, Gardelle, Laure and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 311–334 | Article
Second person forms of pronouns (e.g. Engl. you, Germ. du) or verbs (e.g. Russian pišeš ‘you write’) have a basically deictic function and refer to the addressee. In uses that have been called “impersonal” or “non-canonical”, the second person forms are used in a generalizing way (e.g. You only… read more