Inferior Status
Definition:
Inferior status is social deixis that encodes a low degree of status.
Examples:
(French, German)
The second-person pronouns tu (French) and du (German) may be used to address those considered to be social inferiors.
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Source:
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.