Superior Status
Superior Status
| Superior status is that encodes high status. |
Some uses of the second person pronoun vous in French and Sie in German indicate the superior status of the addressee .
Page/s: 256–257
Source: Brown, R. and Gilman 1960
Brown, Roger, and Albert Gilman. 1960. "The pronouns of power and solidarity." In Sebeok 1960
Broader Terms
- BT↑ Status
Related terms
- RT⇆ Addressee
- RT⇆ Pronoun
- RT⇆ Second Person Deixis
- RT⇆ Social Deixis
- ExactMatch: https://glossary.sil.org/term/superior-status
