Abstract
The personal pronouns you, we, and I in English can be used as impersonal pronouns in discourse situations involving structural knowledge and general truths. In such sentences the pronoun may be replaced by one, and in indirect speech the expected person shifts do not occur. The stylistic and rhetorical differences among impersonal you, we, and I follow from their deictic use. Although the extension of the 2nd person pronoun to an impersonal is widespread in languages, it is restricted to those with small, closed pronoun sets, thus excluding such languages as Japanese and Korean.
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