1948 L. Spitzer iii. 111 The ‘distantiating demonstrative’..suggests a point of view from outside the situation; when we say, for example, dans ce pays ‘in this country’, instead of dans notre pays ‘in our country’, there is effected..a disinterested comparison with other countries.
2006 47 141 A conversion of the ethnographic present and intersubjectivity essential to fieldwork into a distantiating, objectifying ethnographic discourse about others.