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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Dear Alon,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Thanks for your clarification. By “subjectivity”
I merely meant the view of a situation as seen from the observer’s point of
view – the “I”, “me”, “my”, “mine” suite of words, regardless of what the “I”
reports. Whether what the “I” sees is emotional, factual, or tinged with
motives of any kind, is for analysts to determine based on the text as a
whole. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>-Rich<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Rich Cooper<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>EnglishLogicKernel.com</span></font><font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com</span></font><font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>9 4 9 \ 5 2 5 - 5 7 1 2</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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alischinsky@gmail.com [mailto:alischinsky@gmail.com] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Alon Lischinsky<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, September 14,
2011 1:32 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Rich Cooper<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> corpora@uib.no<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Corpora-List]
Frequency of the pronoun I</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Richard,<br>
<br>
> It is striking how clearly your figures indicate how well that single
measure works as an indication of corpus character. Thanks for a useful
metric. It might even be used to identify a significant measure of
subjectivity in the corpus. <br>
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Whatever it is that the FIRST_PERSON_PRONOUN/DEFINITE_ARTICLE ratio measures,
it is certainly not 'subjectivity' in any of its usual senses.<br>
<br>
I assume you mean what the OED glosses as '[t]he quality or condition of
resting upon subjective facts or mental representation; the character of
existing in the mind only'. However, it is unclear why this should correlate
with the frequency of explicit self-mention. First-person pronouns (FPPs) can
feature prominently in starkly objective accounts of past or present material
processes involving the self:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>'Only time I have brown
rice is before training and I was having white rice after training, but now I
am cutting out most carbs' (<a
href="http://anabolicminds.com/forum/mma/172158-cutting-weight-carbs.html">http://anabolicminds.com/forum/mma/172158-cutting-weight-carbs.html</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>At the same time, they
can be entirely absent from intensely subjective appraisals:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>'As the work developed (and it seemed as if it never would) the music
grew almost imperceptibly into a spiteful, clattering machine, only to end back
in the rapturous gossamer of impossibly high and blissful shards of sound.
There was an encore of some solo Bach – always welcome, but there’s often the
feeling that offering an old favourite after some difficult contemporary music
is something of an apology to the intolerant few who can’t help coughing their
guts up out of ignorance and boredom.' (<a
href="http://www.musicomh.com/classical/proms/2011-69_0911.htm">http://www.musicomh.com/classical/proms/2011-69_0911.htm</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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There is no systematic catalogue of the uses and functions of the first person
plural pronoun that I know of, but there's been quite extensive discussion of
the topic at Language Log (see <a
href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3155">http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3155</a>
for a list of relevant posts), and the data suggest nothing like the simple
correlation you posit.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
A.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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