Sandrine Sorlin

The Stylistics of 'You' (eBook, ePUB)

Second-Person Pronoun and its Pragmatic Effects

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Including examples from diverse sources, this book explores the pragmatic functions and effects of 'you' across time, genre and medium.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108967563
• Artikelnr.: 66182535

Autorenporträt

Sandrine Sorlin is Professor of English Linguistics at University Paul-Valéry - 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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Theorising the 'you effects'
Part I. Singularising and Sharing: the Dialectics of 'You': 2. George Orwell's Down and out in Paris and London (1933): Putting yourself in the shoes of a tramp
3. Paul Auster's ordinary life and yours: blendable singularities?
Part II. The Role of 'You' in the Writing of Traumatic Events: 4. Performing 'self-othering' in Winter Birds (1994) by Jim Grimsley
5. Pronominal 'veering' in Quilt (2010) by Nicholas Royle
Part III. The Author-Reader Channel across Time, Tender, Sex and Race: 6. Two ways of conversing with the reader
7. Empathy for sexual minorities in Skin Lane by Neil Bartlett (2007)
8. The ethics and politics of the second person in 'postcolonial' writing
Part IV. New Ways of Implicating through the Digital Medium?: 9. From paratext to hypertext: interactivity revisited
10. Coercing without edifying: Kevin Spacey's 2018 'Creepy' YouTube video explained
Conclusion
References
Index.