Publications

Publication details [#58129]

Jackson, Clare. 2013. ‘Why do these people’s opinions matter?’ Positioning known referents as unnameable others. Discourse Studies 15 (3) : 299–317.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | demonstrative pronoun | referent | social distance | third person

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This conversation analytic study discusses a use by which speakers choose a categorical form to position known third parties in talk in order to create social distance between speakers, recipients and referents, focusing on the role of demonstrative pronouns.