End of ADS-L Digest - 19 Jan 1995 to 20 Jan 1995

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There are 15 messages totalling 326 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. 2 pl (7)

 2. 2 pl.

 3. <No subject given> (2)

 4. Address

 5. TV and dialect (3)

 6. 2 pl, "Yankee"



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Date:  Fri, 20 Jan 1995 22:10:52 -0800

From:  bucholtz[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU

Subject: Re: 2 pl



In my speech, gender-neutral "guys" isn't restricted to the vocative; I can

also use it to refer to a group of women in deictic expressions like

"those guys." Again, this seems to be a pretty general feature; no one

has ever commented on it to me (and I hang with some serious feminists,

all over the country).



Best,



Mary Bucholtz

Department of Linguistics

University of California, Berkeley

bucholtz[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]garnet.berkeley.edu