Editing T–V distinction (section)

== Origin and development ==
The terms ''T'' and ''V'', based on the [[Latin]] pronouns {{lang|la|tu}} and {{lang|la|vos}}, were first used in a paper by the social psychologist [[Roger Brown (psychologist)|Roger Brown]] and the Shakespearean scholar [[Roger Brown (psychologist)#Personal life|Albert Gilman]].<ref>''The Pronouns of Power and Solidarity'' published in T.A Seboek (ed) (1960). Republished in Giglioli (1972). The page numbers cited below are from Giglioli.</ref> This was a historical and contemporary survey of the uses of pronouns of address, seen as [[semantic]] markers of social relationships between individuals. The study considered mainly French, Italian, Spanish and German. The paper was highly influential<ref>Giglioli p. 217</ref> and, with few exceptions, the terms ''T'' and ''V'' have been used in subsequent studies.

The status of the single second-person pronoun ''you'' in English is controversial among linguistic scholars.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Formentelli |first1=Maicol |last2=Hajek |first2=John |title=Address Practices in Academic Interactions in a Pluricentric Language: Australian English, American English, and British English. |journal=Pragmatics |date=2016 |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=631–652 |doi=10.1075/prag.26.4.05for |hdl=11343/129713 |url=https://benjamins.com/catalog/prag.26.4.05for/fulltext/prag.26.4.05for.pdf |hdl-access=free |access-date=15 October 2020 |archive-date=25 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125221132/https://benjamins.com/catalog/prag.26.4.05for/fulltext/prag.26.4.05for.pdf }}</ref>  For some, the English ''you'' keeps everybody at a distance, although not to the same extent as V pronouns in other languages.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wierzbicka |first1=Anna |title=Cross-cultural pragmatics. The semantics of human interaction (2nd ed.) |date=2003 |publisher=Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter}}</ref> For others, ''you'' is a default neutral pronoun that fulfils the functions of both T and V without being
the equivalent of either,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Clyne |first1=Michael |title=Address in intercultural communication across languages. |journal=Intercultural Pragmatics |date=2009 |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=395–409}}</ref> so an N-V-T framework is needed, where N indicates neutrality.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cook |first=Manuela |editor-last= Bouissac |editor-first= Paul |title=The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems |publisher=John Benjamins |date=2019 |pages=17–34 |chapter=Chapter 1: N-V-T, a framework for the analysis of social dynamics in address pronouns |isbn=978-90-272-0316-8}}</ref>