The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns

Editors

Laure Gardelle | ENS de Lyon, UMR ICAR

Sandrine Sorlin | Aix-Marseille University, LERMA, IUF

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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.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 171] 2015. vi, 337 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.171

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Personal pronouns: An exposition

Laure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin | pp. 1–24

PART I. Personal pronouns beyond syntax: Competing forms in context

Chapter 2. She said “I don’t like her and her don’t like me”: Complex interpersonal relations expressed through personal pronoun exchange in the Black Country dialect

Lyndon Higgs | pp. 27–44

Chapter 3. Free self-forms in discourse-pragmatic functions: The role of viewpoint and contrast in picture NPs

Nuria Hernández | pp. 45–68

Chapter 4. Sex-indefinite references to human beings in American English: Effective uses and pragmatic interferences. A case study of your child

Laure Gardelle | pp. 69–92

PART II. First and second person pronouns across genres: Advertising, TV series and literature

Chapter 5. ‘Loquor, ergo sum’: ‘I’ and animateness re-considered

Katie Wales | pp. 95–104

Chapter 6. ‘You’ and ‘I’ in charity fundraising appeals

Andrea Macrae | pp. 105–124

Chapter 7. Breaking the fourth wall: The pragmatic functions of the second person pronoun in House of Cards

Sandrine Sorlin | pp. 125–146

Chapter 8. How do person deictics construct roles for the reader? The unusual case of an “unratified reader” in Schnitzler’s Leutnant Gustl and Fräulein Else

Emmanuelle Prak-Derrington | pp. 147–170

PART III. Referring to the self and the addressee in context of interaction

Chapter 9. First and second person pronouns in two mother-child dyads

Stéphanie Caët and Aliyah Morgenstern | pp. 173–194

chapter 10. Pronouns and sociospatial ordering in conversation and fiction

Dwi Noverini Djenar | pp. 195–214

Chapter 11. Referring to oneself in the third person: A novel construction in text-based computer-mediated communication

Tuija Virtanen | pp. 215–238

PART IV. The pragmatics of impersonal and antecedentless pronouns

Chapter 12. Interpreting antecedentless pronouns in narrative texts: Knowledge types, world building and inference-making

Catherine Emmott | pp. 241–258

Chapter 13. The infinite present: The pronoun on and the present tense in L’excès – l’usine by Leslie Kaplan

Anje Müller Gjesdal | pp. 259–274

Chapter 14. Pragmatic and stylistic uses of personal pronoun one

Elise Mignot | pp. 275–310

Chapter 15. Impersonal uses of the second person singular and generalized empathy: An exploratory corpus study of English, German and Russian

Lisa Deringer, Volker Gast, Florian Haas and Olga Rudolf | pp. 311–334

Index | pp. 335–337

“This volume is highly commendable, as it gives a thought-provoking panoramic view of personal pronoun analysis in different approaches and languages, aiming at an increased dialog and awareness of results coming from other approaches than one’s own, and also between scholars working on different languages.”

Bettina Kluge, University of Hildesheim, in English Text Construction Vol. 12:1: pp. 154–161.

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