The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-39474-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 522 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1170 g

Reihe: Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics

This original volume provides the first state-of-the-art overview of research on pronouns in the 21st century. With its dedicated sections on grammar, history, and change, language learning/acquisition, cognition and comprehension, power, politics, and identity, The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns shows that contemporary interest in pronouns and gender represents just the tip of the iceberg.

Led by Laura Paterson, a transdisciplinary collection of experts discuss the global history of different pronoun systems, synthesize the literature, and contextualize the salient issues and current debates shaping research on pronouns across different spheres and via different theoretical-methodological traditions. The Handbook is designed to encourage readers to engage with a range of perspectives from within and beyond their immediate areas of interest, with the ultimate aim of shaping the future trajectory of interdisciplinary, multiingual research on pronouns.

Using data from multiple languages and engaging deeply with the social, cultural, political, technological, and psychological factors that can influence pronoun use, this innovative book will be an indispensable resource to scholars and advanced students of theoretical and applied linguistics, education, and the social and behavioural sciences.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paterson, Laura L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 The little words that mean a lot

Laura L. Paterson



PART 1: HISTORY AND CHANGE

2 Variation in pronoun typologies

Heather Bliss, Richard Compton, and Dennis Ryan Storoshenko

3 A history of personal pronouns in Standard English

Mikko Laitinen

4 On the alleged stability of pronouns: The influence of language contact and social intervention

Peter Siemund

5 Grammaticalization as a process for pronoun change

Gunther De Voglaer

6 The future of pronouns in the online/offline nexus

Brian W. King and Archie Crowley



PART 2: PROCESSING AND CATEGORISATION

7 Pronouns in the brain

Joanna Porkert, Hanneke Loerts, Anja Schüppert and Merel Keijzer

8 Pronouns and aphasia

Eleni Peristeri

9 Pronoun comprehension

Jennifer E. Arnold

10 Personal pronouns and noun phrases as shifters in Southeast Asian languages

Dwi Noverini Djenar

11 Alternative pronominal items: Noncanonical pronouns in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Afrikaans

Chenchen Song, Li Nguyen and Theresa Biberauer



PART 3: ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE LEARNING

12 How children acquire L1 pronouns

Petra Hendriks

13 Bilingual acquisition: More object pronouns at once

Katrin Schmitz

14 Deixis in the manual modality: Insights from diverse signing communication systems

Jenny C. Lu and Diane Lillo-Martin

15 Acquisition of Pronouns in Creole Languages

Dany Adone and Tamirand De Lisser

16 Use of anaphoric reference by second language writers: From empirical data to pedagogy in the classroom

Masumi Narita and Mark Freiermuth



PART 4: MAKING PRONOUNS PERSONAL

17 T/V in the 21st century: A case study of French

Kimberley Pager-McClymont, Sarah Eichhorn and Amélie Doche

18 Pronouns as shibboleths: Prescriptive attitudes to case forms

Linda Pillière

19 Identifying who uses first person singular pronouns and the psychological impacts this language may have

Nicholas S. Holtzman and Logan C. Delgado

20 Strategic uses of pronoun drop in economic decision-making

Tai-Sen He

21 What does it mean when a computer says I?

Andrew Gargett



PART 5: POWER AND POLITICS

22 The role of pronouns in the race debate: George Floyd and BLM protests

Zeynep Cihan Koca-Helvaci

23 'They really eat anything don't they?': Pronoun use in Covid-19-related anti-Asian racism

Ursula Kania

24 Pronoun use in cross-cultural therapy sessions

Nahed Arafat

25 Politicians’ pronouns: Who is 'we'? Negotiating national collectivities in Taiwan’s authoritarian period

Jennifer M. Wei

26 Strategic use of pronouns among lingua franca English users in a university project-based learning programme

Satomi Ura and Hiromasa Tanaka

27 Pronoun activism and the power of animacy

Laure Gardelle



PART 6: GENDERED PRONOUNS AND BEYOND

28 Epicene pronouns new and old

Charlotte Stormbom

29 Gender-neutrality and clitics

Ashley Reilly-Thornton

30 Gender binaries in constructed languages

Angela Zottola

31 Non-binary singular they

Lex Konnelly, Kirby Conrod, and Evan D. Bradley

32 Individuals' pronoun choice: A case study of transgender speakers in Berlin, Germany

Olga Steriopolo and Harley Aussoleil

33 Misgendering in the media

Kat Gupta

Über Autor(innen)

Laura L. Paterson is Senior Lecturer at The Open University, UK, and one of the founding editors of the Journal of Language and Discrimination.