5.3 Personal pronouns in family discourse
In order to illustrate the importance of studying personal pronouns to the
understanding of the pragmatic system of the family, frequency counts for the top 25
most frequently occurring words were generated for both TravCorp and SettCorp
using
Wordsmith Tools
(Scott, 2007). In addition to this, a list was generated using
the Limerick Corpus of Irish English (LCIE)
4
as a reference corpus and all three lists
are presented in Table 5.1. The personal pronouns that will be analysed in this
chapter are highlighted in Table 5.1:
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