Authorized Recipient
Definition:
An authorized recipient is an addressee, having a unique status or belonging to a socially defined group, with whom one or more distinctive linguistic forms is used.
Discussion:
The use of distinctive linguistic forms for an authorized recipient expresses absolute social deixis.
Examples:
(English, Tunica)
An authorized recipient would be the appropriate person to receive a term of address such as Your Honor or Mr. President.
Here is an example in Tunica of an authorized recipient:
- In Tunica, there are two different words for they which are dependent upon the sex of the addressee.
(Haas 1964)
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Source:
This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.