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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. 170–220

Chapter 8
Pointing at colleagues

Indirectness and politeness revisited

Article outline
  • 8.1Non-specificity, indirectness, and politeness
  • 8.2Addressing and mentioning: The system of person reference
    • 8.2.1‘One’: Indeterminate, non-specific, and indirect?
    • 8.2.2‘Someone’ (and we all know who)
    • 8.2.3‘Anyone who’ (but not really anyone, all things considered)
    • 8.2.4‘Those who’ (but more specifically ‘the one who’)
  • 8.3‘Call me by my name’: Proper names and reference assignation
    • 8.3.1‘Whoever’ (Mr. Struck indeed)
    • 8.3.2Naming Members of Parliament
    • 8.3.3Naming absent discourse participants
  • 8.4‘Save me from naming them by name’: The pragmatics of hints
    • 8.4.1Approaching the notion of salience
    • 8.4.2From salient referents to targets
    • 8.4.3From salience to the identification of the referents
    • 8.4.4From reference assignation to contested meaning
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
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