The Pragmatics Of Personal Pronouns
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| Author | : Laure Gardelle |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2015-11-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027267839 |
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.
| Author | : Osamu Ishiyama |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2019-01-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027262810 |
Personal pronouns in Japanese form a heterogeneous category. This book investigates their historical development from a functional perspective. It shows that while nouns give rise to personal pronouns through semanticization of pragmatic inferences, the use of non-nominal forms such as demonstratives and reflexives for person referents can be resolved within their original functions, offering little reason to treat them as personal pronouns. The cross-linguistic investigation into the common sources of personal pronouns reveals that the development of personal pronouns from nouns is largely consistent with grammaticalization, but that of forms of non-nominal origins requires separate mechanisms such as spatial/empathetic perspectives and displacement of semantic features for politeness, showing that a one-size-fits-all approach to diachrony of personal pronouns is not sufficient. This book will be of special interest to researchers and students in historical linguistics, pragmatics, and Japanese linguistics, who take a functional view of language.
| Author | : Laure Gardelle |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
| ISBN | : 9789027259363 |
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.
| Author | : Katie Wales |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1996-11-13 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521471022 |
The first comprehensive book-length analysis of personal pronouns in present-day English.
| Author | : Sandrine Sorlin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2022-01-13 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108967566 |
Including examples from a broad range of sources, this book explores the pragmatic functions and effects of 'you' across time, genre and medium, to provide an encompassing theoretical framework for the second-person pronoun. With its unique inter-disciplinary perspective, it will interest students and scholars of both linguistics and literature.
| Author | : Paul Bouissac |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2019-07-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027262543 |
Personal pronouns have a special status in languages. As indexical tools they are the means by which languages and persons intimately interface with each other within a particular social structure. Pronouns involve more than mere grammatical functions in live communication acts. They variously signal the gender of speakers as parts of utterances or in their anaphoric roles. They also prominently indicate with a range of degrees the kind of social relationships that hold between speakers from intimacy to indifference, from dominance to submission, and from solidarity to hostility. Languages greatly vary in the number of pronouns and other address terms they offer to their users with a distinct range of social values. Children learn their relative position in their family and in their society through the “correct” use of pronouns. When languages come into contact because of population migrations or through the process of translation, pronouns are the most sensitive zone of tension both psychologically and politically. This volume endeavours to probe the comparative pragmatics of pronominal systems as social processes in a representative set from different language families and cultural areas.
| Author | : Hy V. Luong |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 1990-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027250219 |
This is a theoretically oriented study of the pragmatics of Vietnamese person reference (kinship terms, personal pronouns, naming set and status terms). Drawing upon linguistic data from a radically different non-Western society and the seminal insights of Volosinov, Bakhtin, and Leach, it offers a critical analysis of the major theoretical premises of dominant approaches to denotation and connotation, to knowledge of language and to knowledge of the world. The study suggests that the pragmatic presuppositions of Vietnamese person-referring forms figure in the native definitions of linguistic meanings as prominently as any denotative features. It is argued that the significance of pragmatic implications should be analyzed in relation to the native speaker's conception of the world.
| Author | : Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2014-02-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027270848 |
This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to first person non-singular reference (‘we’). Its aim is to explore the interplay between the grammatical means that a language offers for accomplishing collective self-reference and the socio-pragmatic – broadly speaking – functions of ‘we’. Besides an introduction, which offers an overview of the problems and issues associated with first person non-singular reference, the volume comprises fifteen chapters that cover languages as diverse as, e.g., Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Cha’palaa and Norf’k, and various interactional and genre-specific contexts of spoken and written discourse. It, thus, effectively demonstrates the complexity of collective self-reference and the diversity of phenomena that become relevant when ‘we’ is not examined in isolation but within the context of situated language use. The book will be of particular interest to researchers working on person deixis and reference, personal pronouns, collective identities, etc., but will also appeal to linguists whose work lies at the interface between grammar and pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse and conversation analysis.
| Author | : Fabrizio Macagno |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2021-04-20 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 303056696X |
Together with the first volume “Inquiries in philosophical pragmatics: Theoretical developments,” this book collects contributions that represent the state of the art on the interconnection between pragmatics and philosophy. While the first volume presents the philosophical dimension of pragmatics, showing the path from theoretical advances to practical uses and approaches, this second volume offers a specular view on this discipline. Instead of adopting the top-down view of the first volume, this collection of eleven chapters starts from the analysis of linguistic data – which include texts and discourses in different languages, different types of dialogues, different types of interactions, and different modes for expressing meaning – looking for the regularities that govern our production and processing. The chapters are ordered according to their relationship with the themes and methods that define the field of pragmatics. The more explored and classical linguistic issues such as prototype-based generalizations, scalar implicatures, and temporal ordering, lead gradually to the more recent and debated topic of slurs and pejorative language, and finally to the interdisciplinary and more pioneering works addressing specific context of language use, such as marketplace interactions, courtroom speeches, schizophrenic discourse, literary texts for children, and multimedia communication. Chapter 12 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
| Author | : Jef Verschueren |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 852 |
| Release | : 1987-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027250065 |
This volume contains a selection of reviewed and revised papers, originally presented at the International Pragmatics Conference held in Viareggio, Italy, 1 5 September 1985.
