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Land2007
BibType ARTICLE
Key Land2007
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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