The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 The little words that mean a lot
Part I History and change
Chapter 2 Variation in pronoun typologies
Chapter 3 A history of personal pronouns in Standard English
Chapter 4 On the alleged stability of pronouns: The influence of language contact and social intervention
Chapter 5 Grammaticalization as a process for pronoun change
Chapter 6 The future of pronouns in the online/offline nexus
Part II Processing and categorisation
Chapter 7 Pronouns in the brain
Chapter 8 Pronouns and aphasia
Chapter 9 Pronoun comprehension
Chapter 10 Personal pronouns and noun phrases as shifters in Southeast Asian languages
Chapter 11 Alternative pronominal items: Noncanonical pronouns in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Afrikaans
Part III Acquisition and language learning
Chapter 12 How children acquire pronouns
Chapter 13 Bilingual acquisition: More object pronouns at once
Chapter 14 Deixis in the manual modality: Insights from diverse signing communication systems
Chapter 15 Acquisition of pronouns in Creole languages
Chapter 16 Use of anaphoric reference by second language writers: From empirical data to pedagogy in the classroom
Part IV Making pronouns personal
Chapter 17 T/V in the 21st century: A case study of French
Chapter 18 Pronouns as shibboleths: Prescriptive attitudes to case forms
Chapter 19 Identifying who uses first-person singular pronouns and the psychological impacts this language may have
Chapter 20 Strategic uses of pronoun drop in economic decision-making
Chapter 21 What does it mean when a computer says I?
Part V Power and politics
Chapter 22 The role of pronouns in the race debate: George Floyd and BLM protests
Chapter 23 ‘They really eat anything don’t they?’: Pronoun use in COVID-19-related Anti-Asian racism
Chapter 24 Pronoun use in cross-cultural therapy sessions
Chapter 25 Politicians’ pronouns: Who is ‘we’? Negotiating national collectivities in Taiwan’s authoritarian period
Chapter 26 Strategic use of pronouns among lingua franca English users in a university project-based learning programme
Chapter 27 Pronoun activism and the power of animacy
Part VI Gendered pronouns and beyond
Chapter 28 Epicene pronouns new and old
Chapter 29 Gender-neutrality and clitics
Chapter 30 Gender binaries in constructed languages
Chapter 31 Non-binary singular they
Chapter 32 Individuals’ pronoun choice: A case study of transgender speakers in Berlin, Germany
Chapter 33 Misgendering in the media
Index