Language and culture in English classroom ways of addressing, idioms.

Abstract

The Greek language includes a pronominal system similar to those of many European languages, i.e. French tu/vous, Russian ty/vy, German Du/Sie and Greek esi/esis. Generally speaking, the form of the second pronominal person in plural, esis, is addressed to one Hearer as a means of indicating formality and/or politeness and is determined either by the social distance or status differences between the interact ants in an encounter.  What should also be mentioned here, is that the V pronoun itself is not necessarily stated in an utterance, because in Greek the inflectional system of the verb indicates both person and number, rendering personal pronouns redundant