What Terms Are Used to Convey or Imply a Status

question 12

Multiple Choice

What terms are used to convey or imply a status difference between the speaker and the person being referred to or addressed?

• A) formal addresses, but sociolinguists rarely pay attention to them, because their use in a social situation is always a result of linguistic exploitation
• B) honorifics
• C) style shifts
• D) diglossia
• E) linguistic relativity

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