ABSTRACT
This chapter features an analysis of interpersonal characteristics of the intimate context-type as opposed to the structural ones that explores in the preceding chapters. It also pays an attention how the interpersonal is linguistically manifest in intimate discourse through an examination of the patterns of use of pronouns and vocatives in the Limerick Corpus of Intimate Talk (LINT) corpus that people argue characterise intimate communities of practice. people first focuses on pronouns and found that both he and she, previously identified as noteworthy in both and, were more frequent in LINT and used primarily to provide narrative information such as the background, physical appearance and behaviour of the dramatis person. The first impression is that he and she are more frequent in the LINT corpus, whereas these pronouns are notable only by their absence from the top 20 words in both Limerick-Belfast Corpus of Academic English (LIBEL) and the British National Corpus (BNC).
