(fairly) new (but unlisted) "benefits"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 11:44:34AM -0400, Laurence Horn wrote:
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> *Is there a better term for the first-person protagonist of a song?
> It's not necessarily "the singer", "the songwriter", or the person
> whose point of view is represented (which may be a third/second
> person). Talk about lexical gaps!

I'd go with "narrator", "speaker", or in some contexts "persona".

Jesse Sheidlower
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