 In other words, they perceive/ recognize an incongruence between their level of 'power' and/or 'solidarity', and that of their interlocutor and employ a more formal way of addressing that person to suit the contextual constraints of the speech event.Second-Order Indexicality is concerned with the connection between linguistic variables and the metapragmatic meanings that they encode.For example, a woman is walking down the street in Manhattan and she stops to ask somebody where a McDonald's is.