Table of contents
Chapter 1. Personal pronouns: An exposition
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
Chapter 3. Free self-forms in discourse-pragmatic functions: The role of viewpoint and contrast in picture NPs
Chapter 4. Sex-indefinite references to human beings in American English: Effective uses and pragmatic interferences. A case study of your child
PART II. First and second person pronouns across genres: Advertising, TV series and literature
Chapter 5. ‘Loquor, ergo sum’: ‘I’ and animateness re-considered
Chapter 6. ‘You’ and ‘I’ in charity fundraising appeals
Chapter 7. Breaking the fourth wall: The pragmatic functions of the second person pronoun in House of Cards
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
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
chapter 10. Pronouns and sociospatial ordering in conversation and fiction
Chapter 11. Referring to oneself in the third person: A novel construction in text-based computer-mediated communication
PART IV. The pragmatics of impersonal and antecedentless pronouns
Chapter 12. Interpreting antecedentless pronouns in narrative texts: Knowledge types, world building and inference-making
Chapter 13. The infinite present: The pronoun on and the present tense in L’excès – l’usine by Leslie Kaplan
Chapter 14. Pragmatic and stylistic uses of personal pronoun one
Chapter 15. Impersonal uses of the second person singular and generalized empathy: An exploratory corpus study of English, German and Russian
Index
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