28.3325, Qs: Looking for instances of English ''Imposter'' usage

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Subject: 28.3325, Qs: Looking for instances of English ''Imposter'' usage

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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:38:52
From: Jiayi Lu [jiayilu2019 at u.northwestern.edu]
Subject: Looking for instances of English ''Imposter'' usage

 
Dear fellow linguists,
I am an undergraduate linguistics student at Northwestern University and I
have recently been researching the English usage of so-called “imposter”
referential phrases, especially cases where non-first-person referential
phrases are used to refer to first person speakers. The following 5 examples
illustrate first-person imposter usages:

1. [Father talking to his child] Daddy will be right back.
2. The current speaker doesn’t find this argument convincing.
3. The present authors do not agree with the opinions outlined in that
article.
4. [Mother talking to her child] You should never talk to your mom like that.
5. [Arnold Schwarzenegger talking to his fans] Aren’t you surprised that
Arnold Schwarzenegger himself is standing right here in front of you?

I would really appreciate it if you could ever so kindly send me instances of
such imposter usage that you have encountered in daily conversations, on-line,
or in literary works. Thanks! I will post a summary of the replies I receive.
Best regards,
Jiayi Lu
 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)



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