Social deixis

From UNL Wiki
Revision as of 10:17, 18 January 2010 by Admin (Talk | contribs)
Jump to: navigation, search

Social deixis is a category that indicates the social characteristics of, or distinctions between, the participants or referents in a speech event.

Contents

Natural language

In the UNLarium framework, social deixis may assume the following values:

Examples

  • French
    • tu = FAM, vous = PLN

UNL

In UNL, the attribute social deixis may assume the following values:

Examples

  • English letter closings
    • Yours faithfully = closing.@polite
    • Best wishes = closing.@familiar
    • Love always = closing.@intimate
Software