Social Deixis In Sinhalese: The Pronoun System
Some aspects of language show a close relationship between social structure and language structure. The pronoun system in spoken Sinhalese, which encodes social relationships among the speech act participants, thus provides a fine example of social deixis. This paper shows how this pronoun system en...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas
1988-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/633 |