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Coda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2021

Michael Silverstein*
Affiliation:
University of Chicago, USA

Extract

These interesting situations in which generics play a key role in interactional pragmatics sparked my memory of solid geometry and spherical trigonometry class at Stuyvesant High School in the early 1960s. Each morning our instructor, the somewhat irascible Mr. Burns, would start off by asking a question on the day's material, calling for a response by ‘[student surname]’. Stuyvesant, in those days an all-male institution, functioned, like prep schools, on a surname basis for both reference and address; the teachers’ names were prefaced by Mr. or Mrs. or Miss, while student names had no prefixed title.

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

1945–2020; this is Silverstein's reading text of his remarks as Discussant on the AAA panel, which he furnished to the panel organizer via email on 23 December 2019.