<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>Although not an alternative type of singular first person pronoun (only an alternative pronominal option for singular users), Benveniste interestingly refers to the category of "amplified person" when discussing the use of "we" for self-presentation of singular speaking subjects, as in the case of pluralis maiestatis, or pluralis modestiae ("pop. Tuscan, 'Noi si canta'", Problems in General Linguistics, p. 203).</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Tatsuma</div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-4445176558472304147gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">------------------------------<wbr>------------<br>Dr Tatsuma PADOAN</span></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow</span></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Department of Anthropology</span></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Osaka University, Japan</span></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Research Associate</span></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Department of Religions and Philosophies</span></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">School</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> of Oriental and African Studies, University of London</span></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Thornhaugh Street</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, Russell Square</span></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">London</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> WC1H 0XG</span></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">UK</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff90819.php" target="_blank">https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/<wbr>staff90819.php</a></font><br></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"></font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"></font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"></font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"></font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"></font><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">------------------------------<wbr>------------</span></p><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 August 2017 at 06:16, Liz Coville <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ecoville@gmail.com" target="_blank">ecoville@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">Hi Cyndi,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">To follow up on the Malay example, Pete Becker alluded to Maly first person singular pronouns in his short essay "Silence across languages" in <u>Beyond Translation</u>: <u>Essays toward a Modern Philology</u> (1995) (and probably elsewhere as well):</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"When we confront a distant language, we are compelled to give full attention to the fact that saying, for instance, "I am" is something we do with words in English, for in that distant language there is no <i>I</i> like our <i>I</i>, and no <i>am</i> at all. To put one's speaking self into words in Burmese, Javanese or Malay is to make claims of status (high or low) that alienate our very selves... (284)." </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Liz</div><div><div class="m_-4445176558472304147h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:35 AM So Miyagawa <<a href="mailto:runa.uei@gmail.com" target="_blank">runa.uei@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Hi Cyndi,<div><br></div><div>Malay has <i>aku </i>(informal) and<i> saya </i>(formal) as the first-person singular pronouns. </div><div><br></div><div>Reference: </div><div>Current Trends in Pronoun Usage Among Malay Speakers <br></div><div>by Normala Othman</div><div><a href="http://www.philippines-languages.sil.org/ical/papers/othman-Current%20Trends%20in%20Pronoun%20Usage.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.philippines-languag<wbr>es.sil.org/ical/papers/othman-<wbr>Current%20Trends%20in%20Pronou<wbr>n%20Usage.pdf</a> (see p.5)</div><div><br></div><div>I'm a native Japanese speaker, so I wanted to tell you Japanese examples, but you've already mentioned that.<br></div><div><br>Best wishes,</div><div>So</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-4445176558472304147m_-8764978853830821719m_4721407103358373137m_2598439204099774340m_5239226876718678554gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div></div><div><div><font size="1">-- </font><br><font size="2" face="times new roman, serif">So Miyagawa [soː mijɑˈgɑwɑ]<br>CRC1136 "Education and Religion in Cultures of the Mediterranean <br>and Its Environment from Ancient to Medieval Times and to the Classical Islam",<br>Project Area B 05 "Scriptural Interpretation and Educational Tradition <br>in Coptic-speaking Egyptian Christianity of the Late Antiquity: Shenoute, Canon 6"<br>The University of Goettingen,<br>Nikolausberger Weg 23<br>D-37073 Göttingen, Germany</font></div><div><font size="2" face="times new roman, serif"><br></font><div><font size="2" face="times new roman, serif">Other affiliations:</font></div><div><font size="2" face="times new roman, serif">1. 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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Cynthia Dunn <span><<a href="mailto:cyndi.dunn@uni.edu" target="_blank">cyndi.dunn@uni.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Hello all. I am writing a piece talking about the use of pronouns in self-representation and I wanted to ask if people are aware of languages besides Japanese which offer speakers a choice of more than one option for singular, first-person pronouns (based on things like gender, situational formality etc). If you are, I would appreciate a brief grammatical outline of the system and/or direction to an appropriate reference work. You can contact me directly off the list at: <a href="mailto:Cyndi.Dunn@uni.edu" target="_blank">Cyndi.Dunn@uni.edu</a><div><br></div><div><br><div><div class="m_-4445176558472304147m_-8764978853830821719m_4721407103358373137m_2598439204099774340m_5239226876718678554m_-8156179129805741434gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div><div><div>Cyndi Dunn<br>Professor of Anthropology<br>Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology<br>University of Northern Iowa<br>Cedar Falls IA 50614-0513 U.S.A.<br><br><a href="tel:(319)%20273-6251" value="+13192736251" target="_blank">(319) 273-6251</a><br><a href="mailto:Cyndi.Dunn@uni.edu" target="_blank">Cyndi.Dunn@uni.edu</a><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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