[Linganth] First person pronouns

[Jo Anne Kleifgen]

Hello all,
I had replied to Cyndi directly to her email, but, given the interest, I'm
sharing this with all of you:

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:
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That day *elder brother* (employee) claimed illness; *younger sibling*
(supervisor) had to work in *elder brother's* place the whole morning,
does *elder
brother* remember?

1990, p. 14 (underline added)

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Jo Anne

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Gaudio, Rudolf <Rudolf.Gaudio at purchase.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Cyndi,
>
> Kira Hall and Veronica O’Donovan (1996) analyze hijras’ use of feminine
> and masculine first-person singular pronominal forms in Hindi.
>
> 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.
>
> Best,
> Rudi
>
>
>
> Rudolf P. Gaudio
> Associate Professor of Anthropology and Media, Society & the Arts
> Purchase College, State University of New York
>
>
>
> On Aug 24, 2017, at 11:44 AM, Cynthia Dunn <cyndi.dunn at UNI.EDU> wrote:
>
> 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: Cyndi.Dunn at uni.edu
>
>
> Cyndi Dunn
> Professor of Anthropology
> Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology
> University of Northern Iowa
> Cedar Falls IA 50614-0513 U.S.A.
>
> (319) 273-6251
> Cyndi.Dunn at uni.edu
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