Social Deixis: The development of second person pronouns from Old English to the present

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Potsdam (Institut fur Anglistik / Amerikanistik), course: Proseminar Deixis, language: English, abstract: The word "e;deixis"e; is of Greek origin and means "e;pointing"e; or "e;indicating"e;. In linguistics this term denotes a word or phrase that directly and categorica...