Social Deixis

Social deixis is reference to the social characteristics of, or distinctions between, the participants or referents in a speech event. Example :
The distinction, found in many Indo-European languages, between familiar and polite second person pronouns is an expression of social deixis .

Here are some kinds of social deixis:

• Absolute social deixis is deictic reference to some social characteristic of a referent (especially a person) apart from any relative ranking of referents.

• Relational social deixis is deictic reference to a social relationship between the speaker and an addressee, bystander, or other referent in the extralinguistic context.