Hacohen, G. and Schegloff, E. A. (2006). On the 
Preference for Minimization in Referring to 
Persons: Evidence from Hebrew Conversation. 
Journal of Pragmatics, 38, 1305-1312.

Hebrew is among the languages in which person, 
number and gender are inflected on the verb in 
past and future tenses. Although free-standing 
pronouns are therefore ‘‘redundant’’ in common- 
sense terms when articulated in such contexts, 
they do occur, and constitute departures from what
conversation analysts propose to be a preference 
for minimization in person reference. Several 
exemplars are examined to show one interactional 
environment in which this usage occurs, and which 
it can be seen to mark, namely, environments of 
disalignment. Three upshots of this analysis are 
explicated.