Land2007
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| 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 |
| Number | 4 |
| Pages | 493–525 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/1461445607079164 |
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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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