Stereotypes and registers of honorific language

Language in Society

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 151-193

  Agha, Asif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deference; Honorifics; Identity; Metapragmatics; Pragmatics; Registers; Stereotypes; Tibetan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032105029     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0047404500019849     Document Type: Article

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