ИСТИНА

The work deals with different tactics for expressing respect and social distance in Guinean Pular. Expressing respect can be performed on 2 out of 4 possible axes determined in literature, namely, the speaker-addressee and the speaker-referent axes. One of the possible tactics involves morphology and syntax of the language by pluralizing the addressee or a referent thus raising him/her. Another tactics is lexical and is deals with a specific choice of lexemes with additional honorific connotations and choosing the appropriate form of raising address or mention.