When you speak or write anything, you use the resources of English to project yourself as a certain kind of person,




If I have
no idea who you are and what you are doing, then I cannot make sense of what you have said,





You
project a different identity at a formal dinner party than you do at the family dinner table



language is integrally connected to matters of justice




“who” is a socially-situated identity, the “kind of person” one is seeking to be and
enact here and now



Who's
can be multiple and they need not always be people



The President’s Press Secretary can issue an utterance that is, in
fact, authored by a speech writer and authorized (and even claimed) by the President



Not just individuals, but also institutions, through the “anonymous” texts and products they circulate, can author or
issue “utterances



we can point out that whos and whats are not really discrete and separable.