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This research aimed to investigate the frequency of the use of first personal pronouns in Thai political language, and to analyze the semantic components of the usage of first personal pronouns by politicians. The data were collected from speeches, media programs, interviews, official statements, policy statements and the declaration of the dissolution of parliament. The results indicated that Thai politicians typically use seven first personal pronouns: phǒm 'I (male singular excluding listeners)' krɑ̀phǒm 'I (male singular excluding listeners showing formality)' ph.ɑk phǒm 'we (plural excluding listeners)' dìchɑ̌ n 'I (female singular excluding listeners)' rɑw1 'we (plural including listeners)' rɑw2 'we (female excluding listeners showing informality)' and ph.ɑk rɑw 'we (plural including listeners)'. The meanings of these first personal pronouns depend on factors including gender, number, including listeners, and the level of formality. Moreover, the results also found that phǒm 'I (male singular excluding listeners)' and rɑw1 'we (plural including listeners)' are the highest frequency pronouns used by politicians. The data concerning the frequency of use and the meaning of first personal pronouns were subjected to a componential analysis. The research found that personal pronouns reflect significant social roles, and that political language is the language of solidarity.

The explosive growth of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT threatens to disrupt many aspects of society. Geoffrey Hinton, the former head of AI at Google, recently announced his retirement; there is a growing sense of inevitability and a concomitant lack of agency. An initial humanistic hope might be that people would simply reject […]

The current study, titled the narrative pattern in the novel "Dhameer Al-mutaklim" by the author Fayçal Al-Ahmar tackles a technical feature that draws attention in the novel, this feature is related to the narrative implication on which the novel was based in building its structure, a technique derived from the narrative heritage that contributed to the creation of a literary hybrid in terms of form. The study has also addressed the levels of the narrator in the novel, as well as the author's philosophy of presence and absence pursued by him through the distribution and employment of pronouns, namely the "the first person pronoun", which dominated the chapters of the novel and embodied the voice of the margin in it.

A growing trend exists for authors to employ a more informal writing style that uses "we" in academic writing to acknowledge one's stance and engagement. However, few studies have compared the ways in which the first-person pronoun "we" is used in the abstracts and conclusions of empirical papers. To address this lacuna in the literature, this study conducted a systematic corpus analysis of the use of "we" in the abstracts and conclusions of 400 articles collected from eight leading electrical and electronic (EE) engineering journals. The abstracts and conclusions were extracted to form two subcorpora, and an integrated framework was applied to analyze and seek to explain how we-clusters and we-collocations were employed. Results revealed whether authors' use of first-person pronouns partially depends on a journal policy. The trend of using "we" showed that a yearly increase occurred in the frequency of "we" in EE journal papers, as well as the existence of three "we-use" types in the article conclusions and abstracts: exclusive, inclusive, and ambiguous. Other possible "we-use" alternatives such as "I" and other personal pronouns were used very rarely—if at all—in either section. These findings also suggest that the present tense was used more in article abstracts, but the present perfect tense was the most preferred tense in article conclusions. Both research and pedagogical implications are proffered and critically discussed.

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The present article reports on a case study that focuses, comparatively, on the extent to which Romania's Prime Minister Adrian Năstase and UK's Prime Minister Tony Blair reveal their intentions and thoughts in their investment speeches, by the use of the personal pronouns I and we. The number of occurrences of each of the two first person pronouns and the way in which they are used will be considered in an analysis that is both quantitative and qualitative. The overall aim of the comparative approach is to highlight how democracy is seen in the cases scrutinized, based on the activation by the speakers of the principle of cooperation in oral communication.

This article aims to fill a gap in the existing research by analysing the construction of leadership and group identity in a corpus of 13 party conference speeches by the party leaders of the German SPD and the British Labour party between 1997 and 2003. The comparative approach chosen will demonstrate the context sensitivity and strategic use of the pronominal self-references. The article will demonstrate how changes of pronominal self-reference in party conference speeches can be understood as strategic changes of footing (Goffman, 1981) to foreground either the voice of the party leader or the voice of the party. It will conclude with the results of an analysis of the combination of pronominal self-references and verb forms construing competence and responsiveness, as suggested by Fetzer and Bull (2012), and demonstrates that these verb forms are used differently in combination with the various forms of self-reference, a fact neglected in their analysis.

International audience ; The idea behind this article comes from an observation: the second-person pronoun seems to be more and more used today across various discursive genres. The focus here is on "non interactive" genres in which a potential reciprocity of positions in the addresser/addressee dyad is impossible. A closer look is taken at those that make the "situation of address" that is inherent in all genres particularly visible through the use of "you", whereby the presence of the reader/audience is acknowledged and intersubjectivity made visible. The aim is to show that although the diverse communicative genres under study (ads, political slogans, tweets, fiction, etc.) have different pragmatic goals, the second-person pronoun tends to generate similar effects as it simulates a relationship with the addressee through the adoption of a (fake) conversational mode, with the aim of attracting readers' attention and trust, often entailing a change of perspective and focalisation. The article highlights the strength of the second-person pronoun whose versatile reference is exploited in genres, especially since it seems to undermine strict genre classifications, but also the potential risk-taking of such an involving and transgressive strategy. ; Cet article est né d'un constat : l'utilisation en apparence de plus en plus fréquente aujourd'hui du pronom de seconde personne dans divers genres discursifs. Les genres à l'étude concernent ceux dans lesquels la dyade I/you (destinateur / destinataire) ne peut être réciproque. L'attention se porte ici sur les discours qui mettent en évidence, à travers l'utilisation du pronom de seconde personne, la présence du lecteur/de l'auditoire, rendant de ce fait une forme d'intersubjectivité particulièrement visible. Le but de cet article est de montrer qu'aussi variés que soient les buts pragmatiques de la communication dans la publicité, les slogans politiques, les tweets ou en fiction par exemple, le pronom de seconde personne tend à générer des effets similaires : adoptant ...

International audience ; The idea behind this article comes from an observation: the second-person pronoun seems to be more and more used today across various discursive genres. The focus here is on "non interactive" genres in which a potential reciprocity of positions in the addresser/addressee dyad is impossible. A closer look is taken at those that make the "situation of address" that is inherent in all genres particularly visible through the use of "you", whereby the presence of the reader/audience is acknowledged and intersubjectivity made visible. The aim is to show that although the diverse communicative genres under study (ads, political slogans, tweets, fiction, etc.) have different pragmatic goals, the second-person pronoun tends to generate similar effects as it simulates a relationship with the addressee through the adoption of a (fake) conversational mode, with the aim of attracting readers' attention and trust, often entailing a change of perspective and focalisation. The article highlights the strength of the second-person pronoun whose versatile reference is exploited in genres, especially since it seems to undermine strict genre classifications, but also the potential risk-taking of such an involving and transgressive strategy. ; Cet article est né d'un constat : l'utilisation en apparence de plus en plus fréquente aujourd'hui du pronom de seconde personne dans divers genres discursifs. Les genres à l'étude concernent ceux dans lesquels la dyade I/you (destinateur / destinataire) ne peut être réciproque. L'attention se porte ici sur les discours qui mettent en évidence, à travers l'utilisation du pronom de seconde personne, la présence du lecteur/de l'auditoire, rendant de ce fait une forme d'intersubjectivité particulièrement visible. Le but de cet article est de montrer qu'aussi variés que soient les buts pragmatiques de la communication dans la publicité, les slogans politiques, les tweets ou en fiction par exemple, le pronom de seconde personne tend à générer des effets similaires : adoptant un mode faussement conversationnel, il entraîne un changement de perspective et de focalisation dont le but est d'attirer l'attention et la confiance du destinataire. Cet article montre à la fois la force pragmatique du pronom dont la référence versatile est dûment exploitée dans les divers genres, surtout qu'il semble pouvoir troubler les démarcations génériques habituelles, et le risque encouru par l'utilisation d'une telle stratégie d'implication et de transgression.