Communicative Distance

Abstract

needs procedures for constructing systems of a higher level out of the discrete and homogeneous systems that are derived from description and that represent each a unique formal organization of the substance of expression and content. Let us dub these constructions "diasystems" [...]. (1954, 389-390) appropriateness relations, however modelled, nothing on the being expressed in a certain rule-format), analysis of contexts as well as of linguistic forms. For the dimension of social distance to be universal in languages, as in social life, connected with a series of related meanings, such as informality-formality, intimacy-respect, equality-authority, private-public.