Fictional Creature Pronominalization – The Use of He/She/It in Reference to Zombies, Vampires, Fairies, and Trolls in Guillermo del Toro’s Literary Work
In this paper pronominalization is analyzed in reference to the fictional creatures in the literary work of Guillermo del Toro’ in order to study whether the choice of pronoun serves the function of expressing attitudes towards fictional creatures, such as zombies and vampires, in a way that makes...
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Language: | English |
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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
2018-04-01
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Series: | International Journal of Literary Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://journals.linguistik.de/ijll/article/view/95 |