Pronouns and honorification
2019 ◽
pp. 105-130
This chapter discusses honorific pronouns in Thai and Japanese. It is argued that Thai honorific first and second person pronouns directly refer to discourse registers, which has empoirical implications for their distribution; Japanese pronouns, conversely, are argued to introduce speaker commitments of a particular kind which have implications for register but don't reference It directly, resulting in a different distribution o fpronouns from Thai. Gender specifications on Japanese fjirst-person pronouns are claimed to result from expressive predications of properties related to gender stereotypes rather than direct predication of gender.
2017 ◽
Vol 76
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pp. 107-116
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