Chapter 1. Personal pronouns

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Chapter 1. Personal pronouns 1
4. PART I. Personal pronouns beyond syntax: Competing forms in context
5. Chapter 2. She said “I don’t like her and her don’t like me” 27
6. Chapter 3. Free self-forms in discourse-pragmatic functions 45
7. Chapter 4. Sex-indefinite references to human beings in American English 69
8. PART II. First and second person pronouns across genres: Advertising, TV series and literature
9. Chapter 5. ‘ Loquor, ergo sum’ 95
10. Chapter 6. ‘You’ and ‘I’ in charity fundraising appeals 105
11. Chapter 7. Breaking the fourth wall 125
12. Chapter 8. How do person deictics construct roles for the reader? 147
13. PART III. Referring to the self and the addressee in context of interaction
14. Chapter 9. First and second person pronouns in two mother-child dyads 173
15. chapter 10. Pronouns and sociospatial ordering in conversation and fiction 195
16. Chapter 11. Referring to oneself in the third person 215
17. PART IV. The pragmatics of impersonal and antecedentless pronouns
18. Chapter 12. Interpreting antecedentless pronouns in narrative texts 241
19. Chapter 13. The infinite present 259
20. Chapter 14. Pragmatic and stylistic uses of personal pronoun one 275
21. Chapter 15. Impersonal uses of the second person singular and generalized empathy 311
22. Index 335