The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns.

The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Personal pronouns -- 1. A linguistic definition of personal pronouns -- 1.1 What is a personal pronoun? -- 1.2 Personal pronouns as fundamental elements in linguistic systems -- 2. The function of personal pronouns: The centrality of pragmatics -- 2.1 The grammatical tradition: From impoverished substitutes to elements with a positive pragmatic contribution -- 2.2 A second fundamental function of personal pronouns: Social deixis -- 3. Genre-specific pragmatic effects -- 3.1 A major pragmatic function of personal pronouns in fiction: Destabilizing the reader -- 3.2 A second pragmatic function in fiction: Repeated pronouns -- 3.3 The pragmatics of personal pronouns in politics and the media -- 4. Conclusion on the notion of person: From a strictly linguistic feature to a partly pragmatic notion -- 5. Book contents -- References -- She said "I don't like her and her don't like me" -- 1. Introduction: The Black Country and its dialect -- 2. The research framework -- 3. The existence of pronoun exchange in other dialects -- 4. Her and she in the Black Country dialect: A quantitative analysis -- 5. Her and she in the Black Country dialect: A qualitative analysis -- 5.1 Solidarity -- 5.2 Social distance and respect -- 5.3 Disrespect -- 5.4 Quoting -- 5.5 Topic -- 6. Her and she: Summary and conclusion -- References -- Free self-forms in discourse-pragmatic functions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The 'form equals function' fallacy -- 3. Free self-forms in picture NPs -- 4. Discourse-pragmatic perspectives -- 4.1 The concept of viewpoint -- 4.2 Logophoric reference -- 4.3 Empathy and contrast -- 4.4 Subject of Consciousness and contrast -- 4.5 Free self-forms -- 5. Pronoun Usage Questionnaire -- 6. Conclusion -- References.

Sex-indefinite references to human beings in American English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Prescriptive recommendations for gender-inclusive language -- 2.1 Stating the problem -- 2.2 Recommendations -- 3. Effective uses of gender-inclusive pronominal forms: Existing studies -- 4. Anaphors with your child as antecedent: Data collection procedure and results -- 5. Preliminary conclusions -- 6. Further analysis of pronoun selection criteria -- 7. Pragmatic interferences in some anaphoric chains -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- 'Loquor, ergo sum' -- References -- 'You' and 'I' in charity fundraising appeals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Initial thoughts on 'I' and 'you' -- 2.1 Pronoun use in charity fundraising texts: Apparent assumptions and possible problems -- 2.2 The 'I'-'you' dyad -- 2.3 The paradoxical push and pull of the 'you' -- 3. Ontological slippage -- 3.1 Double (double) deixis -- 3.2 Shifting voices -- 3.3 Switching roles -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Breaking the fourth wall -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The diverse references of the second person pronoun: Other- or ego-oriented? -- 2.1 Theatrical you -- 2. 2 Impersonalized you -- 2.3 Ambivalent you -- 3. The pragmatic force of person deixis -- 3.1 A constructed allegiance -- 3.2 The pragmatic effects of pronominal manipulation -- 3.3 Pronominal intrusion -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- How do person deictics construct roles for the reader? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The category of person from the reader's perspective -- 2.1 Abstract Reader vs. Real Readers -- 2.2 Duality of deictics and duality of literary enunciation. The example of You -- 3. Schnitzler's short stories, Leutnant Gustl (1901) and Fräulein Else (1924) -- 3.1 A non-narrative form of narrative -- 3.2 Schnitzler's two short stories: A very unusual form.

3.3 The limits of immediacy: The hidden inscription of the reader. The example of verbs of movement -- 4. An unratified reader -- 4.1 The reader-voyeur -- 4.2 The reader-actor -- 5. Conclusion -- Reference -- First and second person pronouns in two mother-child dyads -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and Method -- 2.1 The data -- 2.2 The coding -- 3. Quantitative analyses -- 3.1 Self and other reference in the dyad -- 3.2 Forms of self reference -- 3.3 Forms of reference to the interlocutor -- 3.4 Summary of the quantitative analyses -- 4. Qualitative analyses -- 4.1 Absence of subject -- 4.2 [Moi+predicate] constructions -- 4.3 The use of names and third person pronouns -- 4.3.1 Uses of the child's name -- 4.3.2 Uses of "mummy" -- 4.3.3 Use of names -- 4.4 The use of 2nd person pronouns in reference to self -- 5. Conclusion -- Reference -- Pronouns and sociospatial ordering in conversation and fiction* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pronouns and typification of meanings -- 3. Social deixis and the understanding of context -- 4. The gaul register, pronoun variation, and mimetic effects -- 5. Indonesian personal pronouns in conversation and teen fiction -- 6. Situational variation -- 7. Conclusion -- Reference -- Teenlit data -- Referring to oneself in the third person -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Person marking -- 3.1 The self-referential third-person construction -- 3.2 Switching to the first person -- 3.3 Addressivity -- 4. A novel construction? -- 4.1 Self-reference -- 4.2 Performativity -- 5. Other short third-person constructions -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Interpreting antecedentless pronouns in narrative texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background: Pronouns with and without antecedents -- 3. Antecedentless pronouns, roles and general knowledge.

3.1 Institutional "they" pronouns and other antecedentless plural role pronouns -- 3.2 Institutional singular and other antecedentless singular role pronouns -- 4. Antecedentless pronouns, personal identity and text-specific knowledge -- 4.1 Linked entities in a text world -- 4.2 Focalizer's global perspective -- 4.3 Contextual frame recall and enactor identification -- 5. Conclusion -- Reference -- The Infinite Present -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 'On' and the present tense -- 2.1 The pronoun 'on' -- 2.2 Interaction of the pronoun 'on' and the present tense -- 3. ON and the present tense in L'excès - l'usine by Leslie Kaplan -- 3.1 Subjectivity -- 3.1.1 ON and the system of personal pronouns -- 3.2 Temporality -- 3.2.1 The present tense as a marker of eternity -- 4. Concluding remarks -- References -- Pragmatic and stylistic uses of personal pronoun one -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Three uses of one -- 1.2 A common origin for the three uses -- 1.3 Research question -- 1.4 Methodology and corpus -- 2. One as a personal pronoun -- 2.1 Inclusion of one amongst personal pronouns -- 2.2 The different meanings of one as a personal pronoun -- 2.2.1 One1 -- 2.2.2 One2 -- 2.2.3 One3 -- 2.3 Generic and non-generic reference -- 2.4 Definiteness and indefiniteness -- 2.5 Deixis and anaphora -- 2.6 First person or third person? -- 2.7 Gender -- 3. Phenomena linked to the occurrence of one -- 3.1 One in hypothetical contexts -- 3.2 One with modal verbs -- 3.3 One with expressions of "thinking" -- 3.4 One in "thinking" contexts -- 4. Conclusion: Personal pronoun one and the notion of 'oneness' -- 4.1 One and the 'change' script -- 4.2 One and humans, one and 'unity' -- 4.3 The need for further developments -- References -- Corpus -- Impersonal uses of the second person singular and generalized empathy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Remarks on the data.

3. Second person forms and generalization -- 3.1 Generalizing from a representative -- 3.2 Generalization based on typification -- 4. Second person forms and simulation -- 4.1 Participant simulation and category simulation -- 4.2 Cross-classifying category and participant simulation -- 5. The pragmatic effects of non-canonical uses of the second person -- 5.1 Joint empathy and solidarity -- 5.2 Some cases of non-canonical second person forms -- 5.2.1 Factual situation, addressee is included -- 5.2.2 Simulated situation, addressee is included -- 5.2.3 Simulated situation, addressee is excluded -- 5.3 Accommodation and coercion of simulation and empathy -- 6. Where do generalized empathy and solidarity come from? -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Sources -- Reference -- Index.

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