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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| Format: | Article |
| 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 |
| Summary: | 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 encodes proximity and social distance among the speech act participants and its agreement with the verb system in spoken Sinhalese. |
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| ISSN: | 2378-7600 |