The Second Person

The Second Person

is that it is not a third-person
science of unthinking objects (geology), nor is it the study of a first
person’s solitary activity (a painting or a written text). Instead it involves
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two persons and what emerges from their relationship. Recent work has
modeled this interaction on a dyad, but I want to argue that a dialogic
model makes more sense. To illustrate this, I will be speaking of the
movement from a two-person approach to a second-person approach.
Hence, the title of my presentation-the second person. By person I
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mean the grammatical (technically, inflectional) category that you may
recall from foreign language class: amo, amas, amat; I love, you love,
he/she/it loves; first person, second person, third person. So the second
person is the grammatical category that in English we associate with
&dquo;you&dquo;: the hearer, the one addressed. Specifically, I argue that there are
first- and third-person sciences but that what

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