Chapter 14. Pragmatic and stylistic uses of personal pronoun one

Mignot, Élise

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Denominations of humans

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Marty²

2018

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In English, the lexicon is one of the many areas affected by the asymmetry in the treatment of humans and inanimates. The study focuses on compounds. We compare compounds denoting human animates to those denoting inanimates. We find that there are proportionately few compounds for humans, and that this small proportion reveals a tendency for human animate nouns to be more opaque than nouns for inanimates. We propose that this is due to the way we conceptualize humans, i.e. as more than the sum of their parts. Humans resist transparent denominations because reducing a person to one characteristic amounts to ignoring his or her essential complexity. We take this to be a manifestation of anthropocentrism in language. Moreover, when human animate nouns are compounds (in spite of their tendency to be opaque), they exhibit two semantic characteristics that are not shared by inanimate nouns. The first one is that they tend to be derogatory. This again indicates that humans cannot easily be reduced to one characteristic. If they are, denominations tend to be negatively loaded. The second one is that they often involve the representation of a personal relationship (for example, a paper boy delivers newspapers, i.e. comes to someone’s place). Transparency is therefore meaningful.

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“…We noted 12 elsewhere that it has implications for the grammatical system, e.g. personal pronoun one (Mignot 2015).…”

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“…The 15 chapters in this volume provide accounts on pronominal use that go beyond syntax, as they are employed in different languages and as they appear in a variety of discourses which range from charity fundraising appeals (Macrae, 2015) and TV series (Sorlin, 2015b) to computer-mediated communication (Virtanen, 2015) and literature (Prak-Derrington, 2015). A further section is devoted to the use of antecedentless and impersonal pronouns, as illustrated by Emmott’s (2015) analysis of the former type in narrative texts, Mignot’s (2015a) account of the pronoun ‘one’ (see also Mignot’s analysis (2015b) of the same pronoun in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929)) and the French pronoun ‘on’ when used in combination with the present tense (Müller-Gjesdal, 2015).…”

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The year’s work in stylistics 2015

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2016

Language and Literature

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Writing the 'Year's work in stylistics' is both enlightening and humbling. It is enlightening because it enables me to learn about the varied research that people have devoted time and effort to in the past year; it is also enlightening because some of that work falls off one's most immediate stylistics research radar and, thus, it is relatively easy to be unacquainted with it. It is humbling, first, because of the sheer amount and the quality of such work; but it is also humbling because it allows you to learn about the rich crossfertilisation between disciplines which most stylistics work is characterised by. In what follows I would like to share my own enlightening and humbling experience with those readers who, like me, want to learn about the abundant and varied work in stylistics in 2015. I review publications in cognate disciplines alongside those situated in the more familiar stylistics camp, and consider how the latter draw upon and expand on the former. This inter-connection can also be seen in the way I organise the following sections, which primarily has a hermeneutic function. As will be seen, some of the work described in the computer-assisted section could also be discussed under the multimodality heading, for instance, so I highlight this cross-fertilisation as much as I can. Finally, regular readers of Language and Literature will be aware of the following remark which I am, nevertheless, drawing attention to for the sake of the newcomers to the journal: the 'References' section does not list any of the articles published in this journal so that selfcitation does not have a negative effect on our impact factor. Readers are, however, strongly encouraged to check and, of course, cite these articles in their own work fully.The famous motto 'All for one and one for all' summarises the spirit of Alexandre Dumas's main characters in The Three Musketeers. If I am allowed a daring analogy, The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics (Burke, 2014) and The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics (Stockwell and Whiteley, 2014), like Athos and Porthos respectively, united their voices in 2014 to 'defend' the stylistics cause. It was about time that Aramis,

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