Maria Fremer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Maria Fremer is involved.

Article

Fremer, Maria 2023 The informalisation of address practice in Swedish in a historical perspective Politeness in and across Historical Europe, Paternoster, Annick, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 179–197 | Article

In the 1960s, Swedish address practices underwent a change from an intricate system of honorifics to universal use of the informal second-person singular du. This study challenges the common characterisation of this so called “du-reform” as very quick and straightforward. Previous studies,… read more