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Who are we and who are you ? The strategic use of forms of address in political interviews
In the discourse of political interviews, references to coparticipants can be expressed explicitly by proper nouns and forms of address, and they can be expressed implicitly by personal pronouns and other indexical expressions...
Keywords: political interviews, personal pronouns, equivocation, footing, questions, strategic communication
01/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterPolitical scientists on the functions of personal pronouns in their writing: An interview-based study of ‘I’ and ‘we’
In contrast to the numerous corpus-based studies of pronouns in academic writing, this paper uses qualitative interviews in an attempt to account for academic writers' motivations for using the pronouns ‘I’ and ‘we’ and to describe the textual effects that each case of ‘I’ and ‘we’ helps to create...
Keywords: Academic writing, personal pronouns, political science, discourse analysis, interview-based research, persuasion
01/2007 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterNatural Syntax: the grammatical person of personal pronouns
Natural Syntax is a developing deductive theory, a branch of Naturalness Theory. The naturalness judgements are couched in naturalness scales, which follow from the basic parameters (or “axioms”) listed at the beginning of the paper...
Keywords: Natural Syntax, personal pronouns, the first person, the second person, the third person
04/2007 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag