GARDELLE, L. / S. SORLIN, EDS.

: THE PRAGMATICS OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS

Chapter 1. Personal pronouns: An exposition

Laure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin

PART I. Personal pronouns beyond syntax: Competing forms in context

Chapter 2. She said “I don’t like her and her don’t like me”: Complex interpersonal relations expressed
through personal pronoun exchange in the Black Country dialect
Lyndon Higgs
Chapter 3. Free self-forms in discourse-pragmatic functions: The role of viewpoint and contrast in
picture NPs
Nuria Hernández
Chapter 4. Sex-indefinite references to human beings in American English: Effective uses and pragmatic
interferences. A case study of your child
Laure Gardelle

PART II. First and second person pronouns across genres: Advertising, TV series and
literature
Chapter 5. ‘Loquor, ergo sum’ : ‘I’ and animateness re-considered
Katie Wales
Chapter 6. ‘You’ and ‘I’ in charity fundraising appeals
Andrea Macrae
Chapter 7. Breaking the fourth wall: The pragmatic functions of the second person pronoun in House of
Cards
Sandrine Sorlin
Chapter 8. How do person deictics construct roles for the reader?: The unusual case of an “unratified
reader” in Schnitzler’s Leutnant Gustl and Fräulein Else
Emmanuelle Prak-Derrington

PART III. Referring to the self and the addressee in context of interaction
Chapter 9. First and second person pronouns in two mother-child dyads
Stéphanie Caët and Aliyah Morgenstern
Chapter 10. Pronouns and sociospatial ordering in conversation and fiction
Dwi Noverini Djenar
Chapter 11. Referring to oneself in the third person: A novel construction in text-based computer-
mediated communication
Tuija Virtanen

PART IV. The pragmatics of impersonal and antecedentless pronouns

Chapter 12. Interpreting antecedentless pronouns in narrative texts: Knowledge types, world building
and inference-making
Catherine Emmott
Chapter 13. The infinite present: The pronoun on and the present tense in L’excès – l’usine by Leslie
Kaplan
Anje Müller Gjesdal
Chapter 14. Pragmatic and stylistic uses of personal pronoun one
Elise Mignot
Chapter 15. Impersonal uses of the second person singular and generalized empathy: An exploratory
corpus study of English, German and Russian
Lisa Deringer, Volker Gast, Florian Haas and Olga Rudolf