000K  utf8
1100  2021$c2021-11-09
1500  eng
2050  urn:nbn:de:hbz:465-20240627-095022-1
2051  10.1515/zaa-2021-2023
3000  Hernández, Nuria
4000  Personal Pronouns: Variation and Ambiguity  [Hernández, Nuria]
4209  Personal pronouns are vague and highly versatile. In addition to their canonical functions as deictics and anaphors, they can be used to express meanings that go beyond morphosyntactic mapping and feature matching. Potential ambiguity is minimised by a variety of syntactic and extra-syntactic means, including the conversational context. Disambiguation through categorical morphological distinctions is rarely needed. Different non-canonical uses that may theoretically result in ambiguous utterances are presented to illustrate how speakers embrace variable pronoun choice that eludes prescriptive isomorphism, for the sake of expressivity and pragmatic meaning. An ‘Avoid Ambiguity’ principle is suggested for conversation that takes account of the benefits of linguistic variability, vagueness, and the situatedness of natural talk.
4950  https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2021-2023$xR$3Volltext$534
4950  https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:465-20240627-095022-1$xR$3Volltext$534
4961  https://duepublico2.uni-due.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00077199
5051  400
5550  ambiguity
5550  corpus linguistics
5550  fuzziness
5550  language variation
5550  personal pronouns
5550  polysemy
5550  pronoun pragmatics
5550  situated meaning
5550  vagueness
5550  “Avoid Ambiguity” principle