[Linganth] First person pronouns

[Adam Harr]

Dear all,

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: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/upload/1ade6aa9-8b51-43a1-9efc-b7290a7a17bd_TPCS_162_Special%20Issue.pdf

best,

Adam Harr
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
St. Lawrence University

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From: Linganth [linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org] on behalf of Jo Anne Kleifgen [kleifgen at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2017 3:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [Linganth] First person pronouns

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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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.

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