When ‘you’ means ‘I’: the german 2nd ps. sg. pronoun 'du' between genericity and subjectivity

In this paper, we first present a close analysis of conversational data, capturing the variety of non-addressee deictic usages of du in contemporary German. From its beginnings, it has been possible to use non-addressee deictic du not only for generic statements, but also for subjective utterances b...

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Hauptverfasser: Auer, Peter (VerfasserIn) , Stukenbrock, Anja (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 25. August 2018
In: Open linguistics
Year: 2018, Jahrgang: 4, Heft: 1, Pages: 280-309
ISSN:2300-9969
DOI:10.1515/opli-2018-0015
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