Agnese Bresin

List of John Benjamins publications in which Agnese Bresin is involved.

Title

Address Variation in Sociocultural Context: Region, power and distance in Italian service encounters

Agnese Bresin

This study looks at the sociocultural context of five Italian regions and at the situational context of restaurant encounters (a sub-type of service encounters) to examine address variation in spoken Italian—with a focus on singular address pronouns tu, voi and lei. It offers a thorough examination… read more

[Topics in Address Research, 2] 2021. xxi, 290 pp.

Articles

Bresin, Agnese 2023 Chapter 14. Investigating address in regional varieties of Italian: Contrasting methodologies It's different with you: Contrastive perspectives on address research, Baumgarten, Nicole and Roel Vismans (eds.), pp. 340–372 | Chapter

In the context of great linguistic diversity characterising Italy, the case of singular V pronouns is a prime example of regional variation. Surprisingly, an updated and geographically comprehensive account – after Rohlfs’s study (1968) – is missing. This chapter contrasts the methodologies… read more

Bresin, Agnese, John Hajek and Heinz L. Kretzenbacher 2019 Transition from V to T address among restaurant customers and waiters in Italy It’s not all about you: New perspectives on address research, Kluge, Bettina and María Irene Moyna (eds.), pp. 221–250 | Chapter

Drawing on a large-scale study on reported address practices in restaurant encounters in Italy, this chapter examines transition from formal V to informal T singular address pronouns in Italian, focusing on five geographically dispersed regions. Quantitative data suggest that the customer/waiter… read more

Kretzenbacher, Heinz L., John Hajek, Robert Lagerberg and Agnese Bresin 2019 Now you Sie me, now you don’t: The history and remnants of the 3pl V address pronoun calque in Slovak (onikanie) and in Czech (onikání) It’s not all about you: New perspectives on address research, Kluge, Bettina and María Irene Moyna (eds.), pp. 125–138 | Chapter

Among the neighbouring languages that calqued the third person plural (3pl) address pronoun Sie from German in the 18th century, the closely related languages Czech and Slovak offer contrasting diachronic and synchronic uses of their respective Sie-calques. In Czech, onikání (literally ‘addressing… read more