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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820176903321

Titolo

The social dynamics of pronominal systems : a comparative approach / / edited by Paul Bouissac

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

90-272-6254-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 pages)

Collana

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series ; ; Volume 304

Disciplina

401.45

Soggetti

Forms of address

Grammar, Comparative and general - Pronoun

Interpersonal communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Paul Bouissac -- 1. N-T-V, a framework for the analysis of social dynamics in address pronouns / Manuela Cook -- 2. When we means you: The social meaning of English pseudo-inclusive personal pronouns / Nick Wilson -- 3. A socio-semiotic approach to the personal pronominal system in Brazilian Portuguese / Monica Rector and Marcelo da Silva Amorim -- 4. Address pronouns and alternatives: Challenges and solutions when translating between two polycentric languages (English and Portuguese) / Manuela Cook -- 5. T-V address practices in Italian: Diachronic, diatopic, and diastratic analyses / Costantino Maeder and Romane Werner -- 6. Forms and functions of the French personal pronouns in social interactions and literary texts / Paul Bouissac -- 7. The dynamics of Nepali pronominal distinctions in familiar, casual and formal relationships / George van Driem -- 8. The Chinese pronominal system and identity construction via self-reference / Bing Xue and Shaojie Zhang -- 9. Pronouns in an 18th century Chinese novel: What they tell us about social dynamics / Cher Leng LEE -- 10. Me, myself, and ako: Locating the self in taglish tweets / Dana Osborne -- 11. Address, reference and sequentiality in Indonesian conversation / Michael C. Ewing and Dwi Noverini Djenar -- 12. Pronouns in affinal avoidance registers: Evidence from the Aslian



languages (Austroasiatic, Malay Peninsula) / Nicole Kruspe and Niclas Burenhult.