What is the difference between we and self-distance?
we | self-distance |
(personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed).
(personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed.
(personal) The speaker/writer alone.
(personal)
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
The ability to critically reflect on yourself and your relations from an external perspective.
:Ironic humor is an instance of the more general phenomenon of self-distance (Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science, By Brian Faypage, Page 33)
As a pronoun we
is {{context|personal|lang=en}} the speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.As a determiner we
is the speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.As a noun self-distance is
the ability to critically reflect on yourself and your relations from an external perspective.we
English
Pronoun
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Determiner
(en determiner)- We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different.