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| Title: | Social Deixis In Sinhalese: The Pronoun System |
| Authors: | Tilakaratne, Sunanda |
| Issue Date: | 1988 |
| Publisher: | University of Kansas. Linguisitcs Graduate Student Association |
| Extent: | 2104511 bytes |
| Type: | Working Paper |
| Series/Report no.: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics; |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/633 |
| ISSN: | 1043-3805 |
| Appears in Collections: | Volume 13 (1988), KWPL
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