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Publication details [#14327]

Kamio, Akio. 2001. English generic we, you, and they: An analysis in terms of territory of information. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (7) : 1111–1124.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

A discussion of the uses of English personal pronouns WE, YOU, and THEY. Parallels are drawn between Japanese and English demonstrative systems, based on the concept of the speaker's and hearer's territories of information.