Algunas claves lingüísticas y pragmáticas en la evolución de los pronombres de segunda persona en inglés: su uso en "Henry IV" (part I) y "Sons and lovers"

• Autores: José Mateo Martínez
• Localización: Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies, ISSN 1137-6368, ISSN-e 2386-4834, Nº 12, 1991, págs. 131-148
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • This paper describes the different potential for social interaction of the pronoun system in Early Modern English and in present-day Standard English. The second-person pronouns thou and you are shown to perform a wide range of pragmatic functions in Henry IV part 1, expressing and modulating the social rank of the interactants, their degree of intimacy and other emotional circumstances of the interaction. This expressive potentiality, which has been lost with the disappearance of thou forms in present-day Standard English, can still be recognized when a writer like D. H. Lawrence uses dialectal forms in his novels. Conversational excerpts from Sons and Lovers are analysed to show a similar range of expressive potential regarding social rank, intimacy and emotional involvement, this time through the contrast between dialectal forms and the pronoun system of Standard English.