Glossary term I

Inferior Status

Inferior status is social deixis that encodes a low degree of status.

(French, German)

The second-person pronouns tu (French) and du (German) may be used to address those considered to be social inferiors.

  1. Brown, R. and Gilman 1960, 256
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