The chapters in this volume study the construction, representation and negotiation of a variety of social roles through self- and other-reference markers or the discussion of reference as a tool for identification. The chapters uncover new insights both from a historical and present-day perspective and show how positioning the self and other varies, what kind of reference choices language users make and what follows from these choices. The data come from a variety of public texts, private encounters and questionnaires, and the methodologies range from macro to micro perspectives, including combinations of qualitative close-reading and quantitative corpus methods, and synchronic and diachronic perspectives. The findings enhance our understanding and use of reference practices in the context of global, institutional, political and multicultural, as well as media texts.

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Chapter 1 Self- and other-reference in social contexts
1. Introduction
2. Reference to self and others
3. Contexts in discourses
4. Chapters in the volume
References
Chapter 2 Personal conviction against general knowledge
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical context
3. Materials and methods
3.1 Communication on social media platforms
3.2 Corpus collection and analysis
4. Functions identified
4.1 Epistemic certainty
4.1.1 Personal commitment
4.1.2 Collective commitment
4.2 Interpersonal functions
4.2.1 Interpersonal hedging
4.2.2 Empathy
4.3 Pragmatic marker
5. Variation of functions in context
5.1 Comparing I and we as author perspectives
5.2 Comparison of subcorpora
6. Conclusion
References
Chapter 3 Self-reference as an argumentative tool
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background
2.1 Self-reference
2.2 Ethos and argument
3. Corpus and methodology
4. Analysis
4.1 Individual self-reference
4.2 Collective self-reference
5. Discussion and conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 4 The European Union as an in-group in British press and parliamentary debates
1. Introduction
2. We indexing in-group in political discourse
3. Methodology
3.1 Data
3.2 Method
4. Representation of the EU as an in-group
4.1 The EU as criticized
4.2 The EU as a project
4.3 The EU as co-operation
4.4 The EU as a global player in parliamentary debates
4.5 The EU as a guard in newspaper articles
5. Conclusion
Funding
Acknowledgments
References
Chapter 5 Self- and other-positioning in eighteenth‐century newspapers
1. Introduction
2. Analytical framework
3. Historical contextualisation
4. Data
5. Strategies of self- and other-positioning
5.1 Self- and other-references in self- and other-positioning
5.2 Reference and predication strategies in The Oracle
5.2.1 Self-positioning
5.2.2 Other-positioning
5.3 Further strategies of self- and other-positioning
5.3.1 Perspectivation
5.3.2 Argumentation strategies
6. Discussion
7. Conclusion
References
Chapter 6 Intragroup marginalization in social media
1. Introduction
2. Background
2.1 Intragroup marginalization and person reference
2.2 The fashion industry and body positivity in social media
3. Data and method
3.1 Fashion Nova
3.2 Analytical approach
4. Case studies
4.1 Case study 1
4.2 Case study 2
4.3 Meta-comments
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
References
Chapter 7 The communicative functions of third-person singular pronouns
1. Introduction
2. Background
2.1 Communicative functions
2.2 Identity, gender, and pronouns
2.3 Identities in linguistic interaction
3. Methods
3.1 Data
3.2 Thematic analysis
4. Cisgender and transgender perspectives on pronouns
4.1 Cisgender privileges
4.1.1 Biological claims to pronouns
4.1.2 Inability to relate
4.1.3 Experiences with language-based discrimination
4.1.4 Acknowledging privilege and contesting gender roles
4.2 Transgender experiences
4.2.1 Contextuality
4.2.2 Misgendering and language-based discrimination
4.2.3 Avoiding conflict/Safety in passing
5. Communicative functions of third-person singular pronouns
5.1 Emerging identities
5.2 Oceans apart
5.3 Regulating identities
6. Discussion
References
Chapter 8 Positioning the self and other in English lingua franca interactions
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical framework
2.1 Identity as an interactionally negotiated construct
2.2 Reference systems
2.3 Fluidity and hybridity in ELF interactions
3. Research approach
3.1 Participants and setting
3.2 Data collection
3.3 Research process
4. Data analysis
4.1 The use of pronouns
4.2 Reference systems evoked in interviews and questionnaires
4.3 Content analysis of corpus data
4.4 Deictic approach
5. Discussion and outlook
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