Familiarity
Definition:
Familiarity is a kind of social deixis that expresses a high degree of solidarity between the speaker and addressee.
Examples:
(French, German)
Some uses of the second-person pronouns tu in French and du in German signal familiarity.
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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.