Roel Vismans

List of John Benjamins publications in which Roel Vismans is involved.

Book series

Topics in Address Research

Edited by Horst J. Simon, Bettina Kluge, John Hajek, María Irene Moyna and Víctor Fernández-Mallat

ISSN 2405-9269

Title

It's different with you: Contrastive perspectives on address research

Edited by Nicole Baumgarten and Roel Vismans

This book is a collection of studies about forms of address in the world’s languages, with a focus on contrast and difference. The individual chapters highlight inter- and intralinguistic variation in the expression of address and its sociol-cultural functions across media, registers, geographical… read more

[Topics in Address Research, 5] 2023. vi, 432 pp.

Schoenmakers, Gert-Jan, Elsa Opheij, Helen de Hoop and Roel Vismans 2025 Chapter 8. Forms of address in Surinamese and Caribbean Dutch Beyond Binaries in Address Research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction, Fernández-Mallat, Víctor and María Irene Moyna (eds.), pp. 171–196 | Chapter

This chapter describes the factors underlying address practices in Dutch spoken in Suriname and the Caribbean, based on an online survey conducted in 2019. Respondents indicated which forms they would use in interactions with different interlocutors and which forms they would expect in return.… read more

Baumgarten, Nicole and Roel Vismans 2023 Introduction It's different with you: Contrastive perspectives on address research, Baumgarten, Nicole and Roel Vismans (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter

Vismans, Roel 2023 Chapter 16. Address and politeness: A theoretical exploration It's different with you: Contrastive perspectives on address research, Baumgarten, Nicole and Roel Vismans (eds.), pp. 397–422 | Chapter

This chapter sets out to explore the theoretical relationship between address and politeness. It explores the nature of address and discusses the concept of “address theory”, the need for such a theory, and what it should encompass. It analyses, for the first time, the theoretical contrasts… read more

Vismans, Roel 2019 Address negotiations in Dutch emails It’s not all about you: New perspectives on address research, Kluge, Bettina and María Irene Moyna (eds.), pp. 253–279 | Chapter

This chapter presents a qualitative analysis of address forms in a small corpus of Dutch emails/email chains, in particular their strategic use in moving from a more formal, distant relation between correspondents to a more familiar one. In addition to pronominal address forms, it also considers… read more

Vismans, Roel 2015 Review of Mackenzie & Olbertz (2013): Casebook in Functional Discourse Grammar Functions of Language 22:2, pp. 264–269 | Review