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Publication details [#53799]

Yates, Scott and David Hiles. 2010. ‘You can’t’ but ‘I do’: Rules, ethics and the significance of shifts in pronominal forms for self-positioning in talk. Discourse Studies 12 (4) : 535–551.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

power | pronoun | register | self-reference | talk-in-interaction

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Drawing on interview data, examined as talk-in-interaction, this paper argues that interactants shift between pronominal registers in order to present their social world and to position themselves as agents within it.