30.3057, Books: The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: Bouissac (ed.)

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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 19:43:13
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: Bouissac (ed.)

 


Title: The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems 
Subtitle: A comparative approach 
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 304  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.304 


Editor: Paul Bouissac

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262547 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262547 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262547 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203168 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203168 Pages: 320 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203168 Pages: 320 Price: Europe EURO 100.70


Abstract:

Personal pronouns have a special status in languages. As indexical tools they
are the means by which languages and persons intimately interface with each
other within a particular social structure. Pronouns involve more than mere
grammatical functions in live communication acts. They variously signal the
gender of speakers as parts of utterances or in their anaphoric roles. They
also prominently indicate with a range of degrees the kind of social
relationships that hold between speakers from intimacy to indifference, from
dominance to submission, and from solidarity to hostility. Languages greatly
vary in the number of pronouns and other address terms they offer to their
users with a distinct range of social values. Children learn their relative
position in their family and in their society through the “correct” use of
pronouns. When languages come into contact because of population migrations or
through the process of translation, pronouns are the most sensitive zone of
tension both psychologically and politically. This volume endeavours to probe
the comparative pragmatics of pronominal systems as social processes in a
representative set from different language families and cultural areas.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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