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Publication details [#54893]

Cock, Barbara De. 2011. Why we can be you: The use of 1st person plural forms with hearer reference in English and Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (11) : 2762–2775.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This paper deals with the phenomenon of 1st person plural address forms being employed with hearer reference, e.g. a teacher telling to his/her students “We’re going to be quiet now” in Spanish and English, focusing on both contrasts and similarities between them and their relationship to politeness.