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Conclusion

from PART IV - New Ways of Implicating Through the Digital Medium?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2022

Sandrine Sorlin
Affiliation:
Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
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Whenever I have been asked by friends, ‘so what are the effects of “you” in the end?’, I have answered that (1) we need to agree on the scope of reference for each ‘you’ encountered; (2) see what it linguistically collocates with; (3) highlight the overall pragmatic objectives; (4) consider the genre of the text along with the narratological framework – who speaks to whom, through whom and on behalf of whom; (5) take into account the author’s personal history and the socio-cultural context of the narrative’s emergence; and, lastly, (6) acknowledge the potential difference in acts of reading depending on readers’ dispositions, histories and backgrounds. By that point, I had lost all my listeners expecting a simple answer.

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The Stylistics of ‘You'
Second-Person Pronoun and its Pragmatic Effects
, pp. 230 - 233
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Conclusion
  • Sandrine Sorlin, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
  • Book: The Stylistics of ‘You'
  • Online publication: 06 January 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108966757.016
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  • Conclusion
  • Sandrine Sorlin, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
  • Book: The Stylistics of ‘You'
  • Online publication: 06 January 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108966757.016
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  • Conclusion
  • Sandrine Sorlin, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
  • Book: The Stylistics of ‘You'
  • Online publication: 06 January 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108966757.016
Available formats
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