About you: Empathy, objectivity and authority

This article considers the patterns of usage of generalized you within a corpus of interviews with women who had undergone mastectomies, mostly following diagnosis of breast cancer. To date, descriptions of the meanings and functions of generalized you have focused on the classificatory rather than...

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Published in:Journal of pragmatics 2011-05, Vol.43 (6), p.1581-1602
Main Authors: Stirling, Lesley, Manderson, Lenore
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Breast Cancer
Cancer
Choices
Context
Corpus Analysis
Discourse semiotics
Discourse Strategies
Discourse studies
Empathy
Females
Generalized you
Interaction
Interviews
Knowledge
Language Usage
Linguistics
Membership
Membership categorization
Objectivity
Repair
Sociolinguistics
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