Singular perception, multiple perspectives through we: constructing intersubjective meaning in English and German
This paper presents the results of a corpus-based investigation of the role of the first-person plural pronoun in the construction of intersubjective meaning among evidential perception verbs in written and spoken English and German (mainly written). Whereas the first-person singular pronoun only si...
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| description | This paper presents the results of a corpus-based investigation of the role of the first-person plural pronoun in the construction of intersubjective meaning among evidential perception verbs in written and spoken English and German (mainly written). Whereas the first-person singular pronoun only signifies that the evidence rests solely with the speaker/writer, the first-person plural pronoun allows a much wider range of intersubjective meanings concerning the nature of the evidence. It is also shown how English and German perception verbs express intersubjective evidential meaning in a number of different complementation patterns, how the type of this meaning is often linked to these patterns, and how the use of the first-person plural pronoun can vary among and within these constructions. |
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| spelling | nottingham-447972020-05-04T16:42:42Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44797/ Singular perception, multiple perspectives through we: constructing intersubjective meaning in English and German Whitt, Richard J. This paper presents the results of a corpus-based investigation of the role of the first-person plural pronoun in the construction of intersubjective meaning among evidential perception verbs in written and spoken English and German (mainly written). Whereas the first-person singular pronoun only signifies that the evidence rests solely with the speaker/writer, the first-person plural pronoun allows a much wider range of intersubjective meanings concerning the nature of the evidence. It is also shown how English and German perception verbs express intersubjective evidential meaning in a number of different complementation patterns, how the type of this meaning is often linked to these patterns, and how the use of the first-person plural pronoun can vary among and within these constructions. John Benjamins Pavlidou, Theodossia-Soula 2014-02-27 Book Section PeerReviewed Whitt, Richard J. (2014) Singular perception, multiple perspectives through we: constructing intersubjective meaning in English and German. In: Constructing collectivity: 'we' across languages and contexts. Pragmatics & beyond new series (239). John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 45-64. ISBN 9789027256447 https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/pbns.239/main doi:10.1075/pbns.239 doi:10.1075/pbns.239 |
| spellingShingle | Whitt, Richard J. Singular perception, multiple perspectives through we: constructing intersubjective meaning in English and German |
| title | Singular perception, multiple perspectives through we: constructing intersubjective meaning in English and German |
| title_full | Singular perception, multiple perspectives through we: constructing intersubjective meaning in English and German |
| title_fullStr | Singular perception, multiple perspectives through we: constructing intersubjective meaning in English and German |
| title_full_unstemmed | Singular perception, multiple perspectives through we: constructing intersubjective meaning in English and German |
| title_short | Singular perception, multiple perspectives through we: constructing intersubjective meaning in English and German |
| title_sort | singular perception, multiple perspectives through we: constructing intersubjective meaning in english and german |
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