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Peer reviewedRounds, Patricia L. – English for Specific Purposes, 1987
Study of the language produced by teachers in American university mathematics classrooms suggests that teachers redefine or remap the semantic domains of the first and second person pronouns to include third person and indefinite reference. There were five sets of discourse-defined semantic mappings for the pronoun "we." (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
