33.1619, Books: The Stylistics of ‘You': Sorlin

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Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 18:37:40
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Stylistics of ‘You': Sorlin

 


Title: The Stylistics of ‘You' 
Subtitle: Second-Person Pronoun and its Pragmatic Effects 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	
Author: Sandrine Sorlin

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108833028 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108833028 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108833028 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

This book takes 'you', the reader, on board an interdisciplinary journey
across genre, time and medium with the second-person pronoun. It offers a
model of the various pragmatic functions and effects of 'you' according to
different variables and linguistic parameters, cutting across a wide range of
genres (ads, political slogans, tweets, news presentation, literary genres
etc.), and bringing together print and digital texts under the same
theoretical banner.  Drawing on recent research into intersubjectivity in
neuropsychology and socio-cognition, it delves into the relational and ethical
processing at work in the reading of a second-person pronoun narrative. When
'you' takes on its more traditional deictic function of address, the
author-reader channel can be opened in different ways, which is explored in
examples taken from Fielding, Brontë, Orwell, Kincaid, Grimsley, Royle,
Adichie, Bartlett, Auster, and even Spacey's 'creepy' 2018 YouTube video,
ultimately foregrounding continuities and contrasts in the positioning of the
audience.
 



1. Theorising the 'you effects'; Part I. Singularising and Sharing: the
Dialectics of 'You': 2. George Orwell's Down and out in Paris and London
(1933): Putting yourself in the shoes of a tramp; 3. Paul Auster's ordinary
life and yours: blendable singularities?; Part II. The Role of 'You' in the
Writing of Traumatic Events: 4. Performing 'self-othering' in Winter Birds
(1994) by Jim Grimsley; 5. Pronominal 'veering' in Quilt (2010) by Nicholas
Royle; Part III. The Author-Reader Channel across Time, Tender, Sex and Race:
6. Two ways of conversing with the reader; 7. Empathy for sexual minorities in
Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett (2007); 8. The ethics and politics of the second
person in 'postcolonial' writing; Part IV. New Ways of Implicating through the
Digital Medium?: 9. From paratext to hypertext: interactivity revisited; 10.
Coercing without edifying: Kevin Spacey's 2018 'Creepy' YouTube video
explained; Conclusion; References; Index.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Psycholinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=160495




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