English U

use of the familiar 'tu'

Équivalents français

Domain / Domaine

Sociolinguistics

nS

Sociolinguistics

tutoiement

Antonym(s)

use of the formal 'vous'use of the polite pronoun

Related Term(s)

address form form of address

Synonym(s)

use of the familiar pronoun

Sources

NASH 1968 112 (intimate form of address)
NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press.
MATTHEWS 1997 126 (familiar form)
MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
CRYSTAL 2001 347
CRYSTAL, David. (2001) A Dictionary of Language, 2nd Ed Chicago: University of Chicago Press.