‘Give us my shoe back’: the pragmatic functions of singular 'us'
Snell, Julia · White Rose Research Online
This paper is based on the results emerging from an ethnographic study of the language practices of 10-year-old children in two primary schools in Teesside, in the north-east of England. It focuses on the children’s use of us for the objective singular first person pronoun. Investigation of the occurrences of singular us in a corpus of radio-microphone recor…