Multifaceted Dimensions of Self-reference

Speaker and Hearer are the protagonists of the dialogic nature of language use. In this paper the way speakers present themselves in their texts is examined, taking into account not only their contextual role as purposive users but also the linguistic means available in every speech event in which they are involved. The analysis is focused on the Speaker. The diversity of possibilities of self-reference and its meaning in discourse is reviewed in the light of different approaches that try to give an answer to the problems posed by the varia-tion found in different types of text