Address practice as social action
Subtitle: European perspectives
By: edited by Catrin Norrby, Stockholm University, Sweden and Camilla Wide, University of Turku, Finland
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke  Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137529916
Subjects: Comparative and general Grammar; Interpersonal communication; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics; Pronoun; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies; Sociolinguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics
Description: "How we address one another - whether we use first names, or titles and surnames, for example - says a great deal about who we are, our social relationships and which groups in society we belong to. This edited volume examines address choices in a range of everyday interactions - from radio interviews and service encounters to commercials and internet forums - taking place in Dutch, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Italian and the two national varieties of Swedish, Finland Swedish and Sweden Swedish. By comparing local, national and cross-border address practices, this volume uncovers both commonalities and differences in the way social meaning is expressed and shaped through address. The chapters also highlight the importance of investigating the daily encounters that make up the social fabric of our lives. This book will be of great interest to researchers of intercultural and cross-cultural communication, interactional sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis and pragmatics"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; Catrin Norrby and Camilla Wide1. Negotiating Address in a Pluricentric Language: Dutch/Flemish; Roel Vismans2. Communities of Addressing Practice? Address in Internet Forums Based in German-speaking Countries; Heinz L. Kretzenbacher and Schüpbach  3. At the Cinema: The Swedish 'du-reform' in Advertising Films; Maria Fremer4. Address and Interpersonal Relationships in Finland-Swedish and Sweden-Swedish Service Encounters; Catrin Norrby, Camilla Wide, Jenny Nilsson and Jan Lindström 5. First Names at Starbucks: A Clash of Cultures?; Johanna Isosa;vi and Hanna Lappalainen6. Address in Italian Academic Interactions: The Power of Distance and (Non)-Reciprocity; Maicol Formentelli and John Hajek The Last Word on Address; Jane Warren.