Is Not Thy Soul Thine Own?”
An Analysis of Second-Person Pronouns in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and The Jew of Malta
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8863512 |
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| Authors | Raffael Hirt (University of Zurich, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 243-254 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-838X • E-ISSN: 1744-4217 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0013838x.2018.1436287 |
| OpenAlex | W2796366359 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
The second-person pronoun system in Early Modern English was grammatically ambiguous. Playwrights of the period exploited this ambiguity. This paper offers an analysis of the pragmatic functions of T and V pronouns in two of Christopher Marlowe’s plays—Doctor Faustus and The Jew of Malta. The paper demonstrates that Marlowe uses second-person pronouns to convey information about the social status and the emotions of his characters in a way that can be explained by Roger W. Brown and Albert Gilman’s theory of power and solidarity semantics. The model developed in this paper accounts for 1118 of 1124 second-person pronouns in the two plays
Ambiguity · Art · First person · Linguistics · Object pronoun · Personal pronoun · Political science · Power (physics · Pronoun · Reflexive pronoun · Solidarity · Subject pronoun · Third person · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Psychology · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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