The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-272-5936-3
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 171, 337 Seiten, Gewicht: 755 g

Reihe: Studies in Language Companion Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gardelle, Laure

Sorlin, Sandrine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik