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Nickerson, C.; Bargiela-Chiappini, F. – Language Sciences, 1996
Focuses on personal pronouns in business discourse, using data from four business meetings: formal and informal, in Dutch and in Italian. The article focuses on the pronouns "I" and "we," commenting on the frequency of Dutch inclusive "we," absent from the Italian data. The article also discusses indexical and…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Business Communication, Context Effect, Contrastive Linguistics