Chapter published in:
The Politics of Person Reference: Third-person forms in English, German, and French
Naomi Truan
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 320] 2021
► pp. 12–26

Chapter 2
Finding 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
  • Notes