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Publication details [#52718]

Hrisonopulo, Katherine. 2008. Beyond Reference and Designation: On Interactive Implications of the Pronoun I in English. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 4 (2) : 277–292.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Versita

Annotation

This paper proposes two interrelated hypotheses to explain the interactive orientedness of the first-person pronoun I in English: the first-person pronoun operates as a sign, indexed to four ordinary contexts; and interactive implications of the I pronoun are inducted into oral discourse through the interplay of two or more of the presumed contexts.