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Personal Pronouns in Present-Day English

Part of Studies in English Language

Author: Katie Wales, University of Leeds

Date Published: March 2006
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521025034

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This is the first comprehensive book-length analysis of personal pronouns in present-day English. Drawing on the Survey of English (SEU) corpus and the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB), Katie Wales examines a wide variety of discourses, texts and varieties of English around the world. Her approach is pragmatic and functional, rather than formal, and her concern is with speakers and writers and their uses of language in social, cultural and rhetorical contexts. The discussion is illustrated with numerous examples of the usage of personal pronouns and also of reflexives and possessives.
- First book-length analysis
- Copiously illustrated with examples
- Right up to date in its examination of current advertising, political discourse, etc.
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- Date Published: March 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521025034
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 151 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.388kg
- contains: 21 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Personal pronouns: definitions and descriptions
2. Pronouns, anaphora and discourse
3. You and me, them and us: the politics of pronouns
4. Between you and I: problems of case
5. No one's sexist, are they? The problem of 'generic he'
6. English as she is spoken: pronouns and personification
7. Possessives and reflexives: current trends
Conclusion
Notes
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Index.
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Katie Wales, University of Leeds