The stylistics of 'you' : second-person pronoun and its pragmatic effects /

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 acr...

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Main Author:	Sorlin, Sandrine (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2022].
Subjects:	English language > Style. You (The English word) in literature. English prose literature > History and critcism. American prose literature > History and critcism. Literary style. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics.