Honorific
Definition:
An honorific is a grammatical form, typically a word or affix, that is socially deictic It expresses, as at least part of its meaning, the relative social status of the speaker with .
- the addressee
- a bystander, or
- some other referent.
Examples:
(French)
The second-person pronoun forms tu and vous indicate, as part of their meaning, the speaker’s social status relative to the addressee.
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This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.