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The Stylistics of You' Sandrine Sorlin (Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier)

The Stylistics of You' By Sandrine Sorlin (Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier)

The Stylistics of You' by Sandrine Sorlin (Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier)


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Including examples from a broad range of sources, this book explores the pragmatic functions and effects of 'you' across time, genre and medium, to provide an encompassing theoretical framework for the second-person pronoun. With its unique inter-disciplinary perspective, it will interest students and scholars of both linguistics and literature.

The Stylistics of You' Summary

The Stylistics of You': Second-Person Pronoun and its Pragmatic Effects by Sandrine Sorlin (Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier)

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.

About Sandrine Sorlin (Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier)

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.

Table of Contents

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.

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NPB9781108833028
9781108833028
1108833020
The Stylistics of You': Second-Person Pronoun and its Pragmatic Effects by Sandrine Sorlin (Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2022-01-13
280
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