The referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences

Editors

Barbara De Cock | Université catholique de Louvain

Bettina Kluge | Hildesheim University

[Pragmatics, 26:3] 2016. ca. 150 pp.

Publishing status: Available | Original publisher:International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
Published online on 1 September 2016

Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 license.

https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.26.3

Table of Contents

On the referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences Barbara De Cock and Bettina Kluge	351–360
Register, genre and referential ambiguity of personal pronouns: A cross-linguistic analysis Barbara De Cock	361–378
A pragmatic analysis of german impersonally used first person singular ‘ICH’ Sarah Zobel	379–416
What do(es) you mean? the pragmatics of generic second person pronouns in modern spoken Danish Torben Juel Jensen and Frans Gregersen	417–446
Pragmatic use of ancient greek pronouns in two communicative frameworks Chiara Meluzzi	447–471
“Que bé, tu ! (« that’s great, you ! »)” An emerging emphatic use of the second person singular pronoun tu ( you ) in spoken catalan Òscar Bladas and Neus Nogué	473–500
Generic uses of the second person singular – how speakers deal with referential ambiguity and misunderstandings Bettina Kluge	501–522

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