Who Is to Believe When You Bet: on Non-Referential Indexical Functions of the Pronoun You in English
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Using English-language material this paper presents an account of a number of functions of the pronoun you that are not directly related to reference. The analysis focuses on occurrences of the second-person pronoun in utterances of prediction, judgment and generalization. The possibility of non-referential uses of the pronoun you stems from double indexicality as an inherent property of personal pronouns. As a non-referential item the pronoun you is shown to be indexed to the speaker’s internal experiences and/or communicative activities.
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Hrisonopulo, K. (2014). Who Is to Believe When You Bet: on Non-Referential Indexical Functions of the Pronoun You in English. Culture, Language and Representation, 5, 241–253. Retrieved from https://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/clr/article/view/1362
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