Land2007
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Victoria Land, Celia Kitzinger |
| Title | Some uses of the third-person reference forms in speaker self-reference |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Reference, Self-reference |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Journal | Discourse Studies |
| Volume | 9 |
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| Pages | 493-525 |
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Abstract
Speakers of English have available a set of terms dedicated to doing individual self-reference: `I' and its grammatical variants, `me', `my', `mine', etc. Speaker selection of other than these dedicated terms may invite special attention for what has prompted their use. This article draws on field recordings of talk-in-interaction in which speakers use `third-person' reference forms when speaking about themselves (e.g. when a woman says of her husband that `he's married to an Englishwoman'). We show that third-person forms are recurrently used for representing the views of someone else (a recipient or a non-present person, an indeterminate member of a category of persons, or an organization). We also show how — by drawing on resources such as the distinction between recognitional and non-recognitional person reference forms, and on category bound attributes — the particular third-person term selected can be fitted to and thereby contribute to the action(s) a speaker is implementing through their turn at talk.
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