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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
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
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.