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This book addresses different linguistic and philosophical aspects
of referring to the self in a wide range of languages from
different language families, including Amharic, English, French,
Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Newari (Sino-Tibetan), Polish, Tariana
(Arawak), and Thai. In the domain of speaking about oneself,
languages use a myriad of expressions that cut across grammatical
and semantic categories, as well as a wide variety of
constructions. Languages of Southeast and East Asia famously employ
a great number of terms for first person reference to signal
honorification. The number and mixed properties of these terms make
them debatable candidates for pronounhood, with many grammar-driven
classifications opting to classify them with nouns. Some languages
make use of egophors or logophors, and many exhibit an interaction
between expressing the self and expressing evidentiality qua the
epistemic status of information held from the ego perspective. The
volume's focus on expressing the self, however, is not directly
motivated by an interest in the grammar or lexicon, but instead
stems from philosophical discussions on the special status of
thoughts about oneself, known as de se thoughts. It is this
interdisciplinary understanding of expressing the self that
underlies this volume, comprising philosophy of mind at one end of
the spectrum and cross-cultural pragmatics of self-expression at
the other. This unprecedented juxtaposition results in a novel
method of approaching de se and de se expressions, in which
research methods from linguistics and philosophy inform each other.
The importance of this interdisciplinary perspective on expressing
the self cannot be overemphasized. Crucially, the volume also
demonstrates that linguistic research on first-person reference
makes a valuable contribution to research on the self tout court,
by exploring the ways in which the self is expressed, and thereby
adding to the insights gained through philosophy, psychology, and
cognitive science.
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