This paper presents QurAna: a large corpus created from the original Quranic text, where personal pronouns are tagged with their antecedence. These antecedents are maintained as an ontological list of concepts, which has proved helpful for information retrieval tasks. QurAna is characterized by: (a) comparatively large number of pronouns tagged with antecedent information (over 24,500 pronouns)...

How do people respond to voice user interfaces (VUIs) that use first-person pronouns as opposed to those that use thepassive voice? We addressed this question in the context of a phone-based auction via a 2 (first person vs. passive voice) X 2 (recorded vs. synthesized speech) between-participants experiment (N=48). There were significant cross-over interactions with respect to user relaxation,...

The aim of this study is twofold. First, to investigate the use of functional categories by two Greek agrammatic aphasics. Second, to discuss the implications of our findings for the characterization of the deficit in agrammatism. The functional categories under investigation were the following: definite and indefinite articles, personal pronouns, aspect, tense, subject-verb agreement, wh-prono...

With an interesting typological study on the non-prototypical uses of personal pronouns, Helmbrecht (2015) demonstrates that form-meaning mismatch with regards to pronouns is essentially based discourse. It claimed referents dynamically keep changing a particular context, and some kind additional pragmatic meaning tends be encoded into them. Based his study, proposes two hypotheses about how ph...

This research aimed to analyze the use of personal pronouns in male and female shampoo television advertisements. was conducted qualitatively through three steps data analysis, namely: reduction, display, conclusion or verification. The this were utterances transcribed from four advertisements downloaded YouTube. Based on analysis conducted, 50 found both There 12 (24%) while there 38 (76%) res...

Studies on linguistic features employed by native-speaker (NS) and non-native speaker (NNS) lecturers when delivering academic lectures have been scarce, perhaps due to the difficulty complexity of collecting data for analysis. This paper attempts fill gap analyzing how personal pronouns I, you we are used in undergraduate engineering two instructions across different backgrounds emphasize way ...

Abstract This paper mainly discusses the distribution and rhetorical functions of personal pronouns in English Chinese legal news reports which is divided into two narrative types, objective semi-dialogic. Through comparative analysis some texts it finds that differences type directly affect pronouns. In narrative, use third person accounts for an absolute proportion, frequency using first seco...