Publications

Publication details [#53472]

Philips, Susan U. and Jason D. Haugen. 2010. Tongan Chiefly Language: The Formation of an Honorific Speech Register. Language in Society 39 (5) : 589–616.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

honorific | register | speech

Language as a subject

Tongan

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study uses the comparative historical approach to explore the shaping of a lexical honorific speech register, Tongan ‘chiefly language’ (or lea faka'eiki), over time.