PERSONAL PRONOUNS AS INDICATORS OF SOCIAL RELATIONS

Authors

  • Yelena YERZNKYAN Yerevan State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2018.22.1.153

Keywords:

personal pronoun, pragmatic function, referential expressions, social deixis, regulation of interpersonal relations, personal identity, social identity

Abstract

The present paper is an attempt to consider personal pronouns as a special type of linguistic expressions that reflect and encode types of interpersonal relations thus conveying information about interlocutors’ personal and social identity as well as indicating social distance between people.

Published

2018-11-12

Issue

Section

Linguistics