Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 In grammar, the form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience. In English, the second person is used with the pronouns ''thou'' and ''you''. In many languages the singular, applying to one person, and plural, applying to several people, are distinct. 2 A form of narrative writing using verbs in the second person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to the reader.
WordNet
n. pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur
Wikipedia
Second person can refer to the following:
- A grammatical person (you, your and yours in the English language)
- Second-person narrative, a perspective in storytelling
- Second Person (band), a trip-hop band from London
- God the Son, the Second Person of the Christian Trinity
Second Person were a British band that existed for 10 years between 2001 and 2011 and mixed influences from trip hop, jazz, hip hop and electronica to form post-trip hop 1.
In late 2001, singer Julia Johnson and producer/bassist Mark Maclaine met, and early the following year formed the band Second Person. Drummer Álvaro López was recruited in mid-2004 to complete the final line up and their debut album Chromatography was released later that year. It went on to sell out of its initial white-label run in United Kingdom, USA and Australia through word of mouth and publicity generated by musical placements on documentaries and extreme sports films. The opening song "Too Cold To Snow" was later featured in the closing credits of 2006 film Dolls. The band went on to record a live DVD at The Bedford in London, score music for a number of British broadcasters (including BBC and Channel 4) and became one of the main suppliers of music for the international broadcaster: The Extreme Sports Channel.
The band released their second album The Elements on 9 August 2007, it was co-produced and mixed by producer/ engineer Tony Platt ( Bob Marley, Iron Maiden and also credited with engineering the second biggest selling album of all time: AC/DC's Back in Black). This album gained a high media profile in Europe as Second Person were the first British band to have raised the $50,000 target on Sellaband - which allowed fans to invest directly in bands on the site.
Julia and Mark composed the music for the British feature film City Rats, starring Danny Dyer and Tamer Hassan and released in the cinemas in April 2009. The film reached number 6 in the UK DVD charts and went on to sell over 400,000 copies world-wide 2.
The band announced their split on 2 April 2011 3, along with the release of their third and final album: " Come to Dust". This full-length album includes songs such as Gone Fishing, the video for which (directed by Katy Davis) gained extensive play on MTV and was used as part of Cobra Beer's sponsorship of ITV movies in the UK. Other video directors include: Ebba Erikzon ( Radiohead's " 2+2=5" video), Mina Song ( Gnarls Barkley: " Crazy"), Everton Sebben and Mark Maclaine.
In a final email to their fans the band wrote: "Second Person has always been an expression of our combined love of many styles of music and was founded on a shared desire to tell powerful stories. We had to do this during times of big change in the music industry, and although sometimes scary, it also allowed us to do things our own way. Something that kept us going was the support and love of a core group of dedicated fans. You are those people and we wanted to thank you for being there for us." 4
Usage examples of "second person".
This fellow was the second person who turned me on to Macintoshes, by the way, and through the mid-1980's we had shared the thrill of being high-tech cognoscenti, using superior Apple technology in a world of DOS-using knuckleheads.
This was the second person in as many days to present me with the idea of evil.
Not everyone wore silk, yet sometimes it seemed to her every second person did.
Shortly afterwards, the ambassador received a visit from two councillors, Sir William Paget and William Paulet, Lord St John, who referred to the princess in tones of the greatest respect, lamenting only that 'such a wise and prudent lady, the second person in the kingdom', was so stubborn in her opinions that she could not obey the King's new law without doing violence to her conscience.
If only the first person could change the way the second person views the first person.
The Westron tongue made in the pronouns of the second person (and often also in those of the third) a distinction, independent of number, between 'familiar' and 'deferential' forms.