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Maas, Emily (2014)

From You to Y'all: Changes in the Use of the Second-Person Pronoun in Tweets

Bachelor thesis | Engelse taal en cultuur (BA)

The language used on Twitter is close to natural spoken language. In spoken language forms as 'you all,' 'y'all,' 'yous(e),' 'you-uns,' 'you people,' 'you lot' and other forms are used to disambiguate plural 'you'. This thesis analyses by means of a Twitter corpus to what extent new plurals such as 'you guys,' 'you all,' 'y'all' etc. replace the all-purpose 'you' in Tweets.

linguistics

Twitter

Pronouns

corpus linguistics

Author

Maas, Emily

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors

Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en