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or dialects where pronoun avoidance occurs while more prevalent forms of the language lack it. Many Orthodox Jews, when addressing a rabbi, teacher, or other spiritual authority, will address him with the word "Rebbi" instead of "you." The practice is very old, dating at least to the Talmud, and has
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or pronoun avoidance, using proper names instead. Since autistic children often have difficulty with pronouns, this phenomenon has been attributed variously to input from adults avoiding pronouns, or abnormalities in how children with ASD experience the
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largely replace all pronouns, but it is also common particularly for women to refer to themselves by name, and titles are often used for third parties.
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been noted in Halachic literature. However, though some English-speaking Jews do this, this practice is absent in English as a whole.
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Pronoun avoidance may extend to first and third person pronouns as well. In
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still exist, but are used primarily to address social equals and inferiors.
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Pham, Hoa (2001). "Gender in addressing and self-reference in Vietnamese".
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was invented in the 1950s to function as a polite second-person pronoun.
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Gender across languages: the linguistic representation of women and men
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characterizes the following languages as exhibiting pronoun avoidance:
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An Introduction to Japanese Grammar and Communication Strategies
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International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders
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Languages with pronoun avoidance cluster in East and
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Index

kinship
nominal expressions
personal pronouns
T–V distinction
honorifics
politeness
second person pronouns
South-East Asia
Indonesian
Japanese
elaborate system of honorific speech
Vietnamese
kinship terms
sociolects
World Atlas of Language Structures
Burmese
Indonesian
Japanese
Khmer
Korean
Thai
Vietnamese
autism-spectrum disorder
pronoun reversal
self
Pro-drop language
T–V distinction
Pronoun game

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