Glossary term F

Familiarity

Familiarity is a kind of social deixis that expresses a high degree of solidarity between the speaker and addressee.

(French, German)

Some uses of the second-person pronouns tu in French and du in German signal familiarity.

  1. Hartmann and Stork 1972, 83
  2. Pei and Gaynor 1954, 72
  3. Brown, R. and Gilman 1960, 258
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