Language Ideologies
Subtitle: Practice and Theory (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics, 16)
Contributors: Bambi B. Schieffelin (Editor); Kathryn A. Woolard (Editor); Paul V. Kroskrity (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 30, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780195105612
First sentence: All sociolinguistic systems, presumably, provide some means of expressing respect (or disrespect), but only some systems have those specially conventionalized linguistic forms that linguists have called "honorifics."