Elise Mignot
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elise Mignot plays a role.
Articles
2018 Denominations of humans: The case of compounds in English From Culture to Language and Back: The Animacy Hierarchy in language and discourse, Gardelle, Laure and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 163–183 | Article
In English, the lexicon is one of the many areas affected by the asymmetry in the treatment of humans and inanimates. The study focuses on compounds. We compare compounds denoting human animates to those denoting inanimates. We find that there are proportionately few compounds for humans, and… read more
2015 Chapter 14. Pragmatic and stylistic uses of personal pronoun one The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns, Gardelle, Laure and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 275–310 | Article
In this paper we investigate the uses of personal pronoun one. Our study is based on 604 occurrences of personal pronoun one; 263 of those were extracted from the British National Corpus and the rest from other sources. First of all we discuss the inclusion of one in the category of personal… read more