34.3177, Books: Referring to discourse participants in Ibero-Romance languages: Posio, Herbeck (eds.) (2023)

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Date: 16-Oct-2023
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Referring to discourse participants in Ibero-Romance languages: Posio, Herbeck (eds.) (2023) 


Title: Referring to discourse participants in Ibero-Romance languages
Series Title:  Open Romance Linguistics
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Language Science Press
                http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/376

editor: Pekka Posio
editor:         Peter Herbeck
Electronic: ISBN:  978-3-96110-41 Pages: 360 Price: ----
Abstract:

This volume brings together contributions by researchers focusing on
personal pronouns in Ibero-Romance languages, going beyond the
well-established variable of expressed vs. non-expressed subjects.
While factors such as agreement morphology, topic shift and contrast
or emphasis have been argued to account for variable subject
expression, several corpus studies on Ibero-Romance languages have
shown that the expression of subject pronouns goes beyond these
traditionally established factors and is also subject to considerable
dialectal variation. One of the factors affecting choice and
expression of personal pronouns or other referential devices is
whether the construction is used personally or impersonally. The use
and emergence of new impersonal constructions, eventually also new
(im)personal pronouns, as well as the variation found in the
expression of human impersonality in different Ibero-Romance language
varieties is another interesting research area that has gained ground
in the recent years. In addition to variable subject expression,
similar methods and theoretical approaches have been applied to study
the expression of objects. Finally, the reference to the addressee(s)
using different address pronouns and other address forms is an
important field of study that is closely connected to the variable
expression of pronouns. The present book sheds light on all these
aspects of reference to discourse participants. The volume contains
contributions with a strong empirical background and various methods
and both written and spoken corpus data from Ibero-Romance languages.
The focus on discourse participants highlights the special properties
of first and second person referents and the factors affecting them
that are often different from the anaphoric third person. The chapters
are organized into three thematic sections: (i) Variable expression of
subjects and objects, (ii) Between personal and impersonal, and (iii)
Reference to the addressee.

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Romance

Written In: English (eng)

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