What is relational social deixis?

Definition
	Relational social deixis is deictic reference to a social relationship between the speaker and an addressee, bystander, or other referent in the extralinguistic context.

Examples (French, Southeast Asian languages, Dyirbal)
	Distinctions between the French second person pronouns tu and vous Speech levels of Southeast Asian languages that depend on the relative status of the speaker and addressee Distinctions between lexical choices made in the presence of certain kin in Dyirbal

Generic
	Relational social deixis is a kind of
	What is social deixis?

Source
	Levinson 1979:207

Context for this page:

Concept module: relational social deixis
In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): R
In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
In bookshelf: Linguistics

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