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“What’s in a pronoun and how does it matter?: From the perspective of pragmatics”, Sandrine Sorlin, Université Paul-Valéry/IUF, France
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In this talk, I first wish to give a quick overview of the quite recent ‘pronoun sharing’ trend from a linguistic and pragmatic perspective, going through the new collocations and semantic shifts of the term 'pronoun’ with examples drawn from SketchEngine and from X. I also try to account for the ‘indirectness’ of the use of the third-person pronoun mentioned after a speaker’s name so that people can refer to them in their absence. I then go on to analysing more than 800 responses to a questionnaire designed to assess people’s motivations for pronoun sharing or non-sharing. Elaborating on the sociological concept of “indexicality”, “abstraction” and “stance-taking” (Silverstein 2003, Conrod 2019 Kiesling 2022), I study the responses through a pragmatic filter that allows me to gather all of them under the same theoretical banner, explaining why pronoun sharing matters to some and why others are more reluctant or entirely averse to the practice. I indeed categorise the sharing and non-sharing respondents into different kinds and subcategories in terms of face work (Goffman, 1967), equity rights (Spencer-Oatey, 2002) and (im)politeness (Leech 2014, Culpeper 2011). I isolate a third category that I call the “rejecters” disregarding the practice altogether for reasons linked to their negative face and strict adherence to pragmatic maxims. For the rejecters, “abstraction” consists in packing the sharers into an ideological box from which they clearly wish to disalign with.
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