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<p>It is good that the discussion as shifted from an exclusive focus on pronouns to a broader discussion of person-reference systems. In Eloquence in Trouble, I describe the presence or absence of first-person pronouns in so-called "pro-drop" languages like
Bangla as marked, and coinciding with other forms of marked behavior locally referred to as 'pagal' ('mad'), full of 'amitto' (I-ness).<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"Zero person" constructions in Finnish and other languages are even more interesting. In Finnish they involve replacing overt first-person forms of reference with verbs marked for third-person but lacking any overt subject.
Nor is a subject NP accessible via anaphora. The construction works rather more like </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">French "on" or English "one," with this huge caveat—every Finnish three-year-old uses '</span>nolla persoona' (zero person) and it has
none of the elitist indexical value of English "one." </p>
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<p>Finnish zero person is used in such contexts as 12-step meetings, which in Finland seem to be "group therapy" sessions facilitated by savvy therapists who avoid the blaming value of 'you' and the 'just me' value of 'I' and produce such utterances as "[blank]
sometimes feels like having a drink" (Halonen 2008; see also Laitinen 2006 and Helasvuo and Laitinen 2006.) </p>
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2008 Person Reference as a Device for Constructing Experience as Typical in Group Therapy.
<i>In</i> Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy. A. Peräkylä, C. Antaki, S. Vehviläinen, and I. Leudar, eds. Pp. 139-151. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</p>
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2006 Zero Person in Finnish: A Grammatical Resource for Construing Human Evidence. <i>In</i> Grammar from the Human Perspective: Case, Space and Person in Finnish. M.-L. Helasvuo and L. Campbell, eds. Pp. 209-232 Amsterdam: Benjamins.</p>
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2006 Person in Finnish: Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Relations in Interaction.
<i>In</i> Grammar from the Human Perspective: Case, Space and Person in Finnish. M.-L. Helasvuo and L. Campbell, eds. Pp. 173-208. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 28, 2017 7:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jo Anne Kleifgen; Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group (LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Linganth] First person pronouns</font>
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<div>Michael Ewing has a terrific paper on first and second person reference in Indonesian, titled "Localizing Person Reference Among Indonesian Youth." Ewing shows that colloquial varieties of Indonesian have an open system of self-reference that hip young
people (as well as unhip and not so young people, I'm sure) use to position themselves socially. You can find the paper in this collection: <a href="https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/upload/1ade6aa9-8b51-43a1-9efc-b7290a7a17bd_TPCS_162_Special%20Issue.pdf" target="_blank" style="font-size:12pt" id="LPlnk564351">https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/upload/1ade6aa9-8b51-43a1-9efc-b7290a7a17bd_TPCS_162_Special%20Issue.pdf</a></div>
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<div>Adam Harr</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 27, 2017 3:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group (LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org)<br>
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<div>Hello all,<br>
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I had replied to Cyndi directly to her email, but, given the interest, I'm sharing this with all of you:<br>
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I worked on the Vietnamese person-reference system in the context of workplace discourse in a California circuit board manufacturing plant. Attached are a few references; I published an ethnography in 2013 that offers in detail the work I did with the company
over several years. I also suggest a reference by Luong, which I relied on heavily as I started my work. Here's one sample of data from Luong, which got me going, and which I cited in my book:<br>
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<u>elder brother</u> (employee) claimed illness; <u>younger sibling</u> (supervisor) had to work in
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1990, p. 14 (underline added)</p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Gaudio, Rudolf <span dir="ltr">
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Hi Cyndi,<br>
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Kira Hall and Veronica O’Donovan (1996) analyze hijras’ use of feminine and masculine first-person singular pronominal forms in Hindi.<br>
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Hall, K., & V. O’Donovan (1996). Shifting gender positions among Hindi-speaking hijras. In Janet Bing, Victoria Bergvall & Alice Freed (Eds.), Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and Method. London: Longman. 228-226.<br>
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Rudi<br>
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On Aug 24, 2017, at 11:44 AM, Cynthia Dunn <<a href="mailto:cyndi.dunn@UNI.EDU" target="_blank">cyndi.dunn@UNI.EDU</a>> wrote:<br>
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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><br>
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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>
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<a href="tel:%28319%29%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>
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