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The Politics of Person Reference: Third-person forms in English, German, and FrenchNaomi Truan
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 320] 2021
► pp. 12–26
Chapter 2Finding the missing third person
Article outline
- 2.1Assigning reference, or who are you talking about?
- 2.2(Why) Is the third person so special?
- Persons and non-persons
- Speech roles
- Forms of address and forms of mention
- 2.3The third person in political discourse
- A bias towards the first and second persons
- The heterogeneity of third-person forms
- Third-person forms as exclusionary markers?
- Third-person forms as indirect markers?
- Conclusion
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Notes