The meanings of personal pronouns are described using basic notions of Cognitive Linguistics. Among these notions are subjective vs. objective construal, profiling, grounding, intersubjectivity, paths of mental access, and conceptual blending. Pronouns are situated with respect to other strategies of nominal grounding. It is explained how personal pronouns can be used impersonally, and the meaning of impersonalit is characterized. Special attention is devoted to I and you. Their abstracted conceptual meanings invoke very basic cognitive models pertaining to the ground, a speech event, and subject vs. object of conception. With these models as inputs, the pronouns’ meanings are constructed through successive levels of blending. The crucial factor is intersubjectivity.
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Giovanelli, Marcello
2018. “We Have Tomorrow Bright Before Us Like a Flame”: Pronouns, Enactors, and Cross-Writing in The Dream Keeper and Other Poems. In Pronouns in Literature, ► pp. 33 ff.
Giovanelli, Marcello
2019. Construing and reconstruing the horrors of the trench: Siegfried Sassoon, creativity and context. Journal of Literary Semantics 48:1 ► pp. 85 ff.
Giovanelli, Marcello
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2017. Cultural Conceptualisations of Collective Self-representation Among Chinese Immigrants. In Advances in Cultural Linguistics [Cultural Linguistics, ], ► pp. 89 ff.
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