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Zobel, Sarah. 2016. A pragmatic analysis of german impersonally used first person singular ‘ICH’. Pragmatics 26 (3) : 379–416.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | generic utterance | impersonal construction | pragmatics | pronoun

Language as a subject

English | German

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the pragmatic effects (as distinguishing aspect) of the impersonally used pronouns ich and du (German) and man (Engl. one) in generic sentences, as exemplified by naturally occurring data from a self-compiled corpus.