Have a personal or library account? Click to login

Pronouns and identity: A case study from a 1930s working-class community

By:
Open Access
|Apr 2015

References

  1. Beaven, Brad. 2005. Leisure, citizenship and working-class men, 1850-1945. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  2. Bernstein, Basil. 1962. Social class, linguistic codes and grammatical elements. Journal of Language and Speech 5 (4): 221-240.10.1177/002383096200500405
  3. Bernstein, Basil. 1971. Class, codes and control. Vol.1. London: Paladin.
  4. Bolander, Brook and Richard J. Watts. 2009. Re-reading and rehabilitating Basil Bernstein. Multilingua 28: 143-173.10.1515/mult.2009.008
  5. Bramley, Nicolette. 2001. The pronouns of politics: The use of pronouns in the construction of ‘self’ and ‘other’ in political interviews. Unpublished PhD thesis, Australian National University.
  6. Carter, Ronald and Michael McCarthy. 2006. The Cambridge grammar of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  7. Conde-Silvestre, J. Camilo and Juan M. Hernández-Campoy. 2012. Introduction. In J.C. Hernandez-Campoy and J.M. Conde-Silvestre (eds.). The handbook of historical sociolinguistics, 1-8. Oxford: Blackwell.10.1002/9781118257227.ch
  8. Ferraby, John 1944. Recording and classifying verbatim information. Field Report 2146, Mass Observation Archive.
  9. Gazeley, Ian and Claire Langhamer. 2013. Happiness in Mass Observation’s Bolton. History Workshop Journal 75. Available at: http://hwj.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/08/27/hwj.dbs015.full Accessed 21.9.12.
  10. Halliday, Michael. 1978. Language as social semiotic. London: Edward Arnold.
  11. Halliday, Michael and Ruqaiya Hasan. 1976. Cohesion in English. London: Longman.
  12. Harris, Paul. 1973. Social leadership and social attitudes in Bolton 1919-1939. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Lancaster.
  13. Harrisson, Tom. 1938. What they think in Worktown. The Listener, 25th August.
  14. Harrisson, Tom. 1961. Britain revisited. London: Gollancz.
  15. Harrisson, Tom. 1974. The pub and the people. Welwyn Garden City: Seven Dials Press.
  16. Hawkins, Peter. 1969. Social class, the nominal group and reference. Journal of Language and Speech 12 (2): 125-135.10.1177/002383096901200205
  17. Hernández-Campoy, Juan M. and J. Camilo Conde-Silvestre (eds.). 2012. The handbook of historical sociolinguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.10.1002/9781118257227
  18. Hinton, James. 2013. The mass observers, a history, 1937-1949. Oxford: Oxford University Press.10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199671045.001.0001
  19. Huddleston, Rodney and Geoffrey Pullum. 2002. The Cambridge grammar of the English language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/9781316423530
  20. Jeffrey, Tom. 1999. Mass-Observation: A short history, University of Sussex, MOA Occasional paper 10.
  21. Johnston, Rhona P. 1997. Social class and grammatical development: A comparison of the speech of five year olds from middle and working class backgrounds. Journal of Language and Speech 20 (4): 317-324.10.1177/002383097702000403
  22. Millar, Robert McColl. 2012. Social history and the sociology of language. In J. M. Hernández-Campoy and J.C. Conde-Silvestre (eds.). The handbook of historical sociolinguistics, 41-59. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.10.1002/9781118257227.ch3
  23. Mühlhäusler, Peter and Rom Harré. 1990. Pronouns and people: The linguistic construction of social and personal identity. Oxford: Blackwell
  24. Pennycook, Alistair. 1994. The politics of pronouns. ELT Journal 48 (2): 173-178.10.1093/elt/48.2.173
  25. Russell, Dave. 2004. Looking North: Northern England and the national imagination. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  26. Shorrocks, Graham. 1999. A grammar of the dialect of the Bolton area. Part II: Morphology and syntax. Bamberg: Peter Lang.
  27. Snell, Julia. 2008. Pronouns, dialect and discourse: A socio-pragmatic account of children’s language in Teesside. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Leeds.
  28. Thoits, Peggy 1983. Multiple identities and psychological well-neing: A reformulation and test of the social isolation. American Sociological Review 48 (2): 174-187.10.2307/2095103
  29. Trevelyan, Julian. 1957. Indigo days. London: McGibbon and Kee.
  30. Wales, Katie 1996. Personal pronouns in present-day English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  31. Waller, P.J. 1987. Democracy, dialect, speech and class. In P.J. Waller (ed.). Politics and social change in modern Britain, 1-33. Brighton: Harvester.
  32. Walton, John. 1987. Lancashire: A social history, 1558-1939. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/icame-2015-0005 | Journal eISSN: 1502-5462 | Journal ISSN: 0801-5775
Language: English
Page range: 111 - 134
Published on: Apr 1, 2015
Published by: Sciendo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 times per year

© 2015 Ivor Timmis, published by Sciendo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.