The Stylistics of 'You'

Second-Person Pronoun and its Pragmatic Effects

The Stylistics of 'You'
Sandrine Sorlin
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Hardback
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13 Jan 2022 UK
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9781108833028
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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, Bronte, 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.
Sandrine Sorlin is Professor of English Linguistics at University Paul-Valery - Montpellier (France), specialising in stylistics and pragmatics. Her latest book Language and Manipulation in House of Cards (2016) received an award from the European Society for the Study of English. She co-edited The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns (2015) and edited Stylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction (Bloomsbury 2020). She is also assistant editor of Language and Literature.
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ISBN-13: 9781108833028
Published: 13 Jan 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Weight: 565g
Pages: 280

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