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Contrastive perspectives on address research
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 contexts and time – in more than 15 languages. The volume showcases the variety of approaches that exists in current address research, including the breadth of contrastive methodologies harnessing surveys and questionnaires, focus group discussions, corpus linguistics, discourse and conversation analysis to offer complementary perspectives on culture-specific address practice.
This volume is for students and researchers of address and social interaction in a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including various sub-disciplines of linguistics (such as contrastive, variational and intercultural pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and morphology) and intercultural communication, as well as experts in individual languages and qualitative sociologists.
This volume is for students and researchers of address and social interaction in a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including various sub-disciplines of linguistics (such as contrastive, variational and intercultural pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and morphology) and intercultural communication, as well as experts in individual languages and qualitative sociologists.
[Topics in Address Research, 5] 2023. vi, 432 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 25 August 2023
Published online on 25 August 2023
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- IntroductionNicole Baumgarten and Roel Vismans | pp. 1–12
- Chapter 1. Comparing address practices in the Finnish and Hungarian “Got Talent” TV programmesHanna Lappalainen and Ildikó Vecsernyés | pp. 13–34
- Chapter 2. The function of names: A case study of usage in Japanese original TV dramas and Korean remakesDuck-Young Lee and Naomi Ogi | pp. 35–60
- Chapter 3. Variations in opening and closing forms in email correspondence in Danish and SwedishTina Thode Hougaard, Eva Skafte Jensen, Marianne Rathje, Jonathan White and Camilla Wide | pp. 61–91
- Chapter 4. Address terms in social media requests: A contrastive study of Chinese and Japanese university studentsWei Ren and Saeko Fukushima | pp. 92–112
- Chapter 5. Practices of person reference in Chinese and German interactions: A contrastive analysis of “third person reference forms” in SMS, WhatsApp and WeChat communicationSusanne Günthner | pp. 113–141
- Chapter 6. Address forms in academic discourse in Indian EnglishTatiana Larina and Neelakshi Suryanarayan | pp. 142–170
- Chapter 7. Don’t moan, it won’t make you feel better, granny! – Addressing older patients: A comparative study of German and BosnianMinka Džanko | pp. 171–196
- Chapter 8. A comparative study of nominal forms of address in metropolitan French and British English service encountersChristophe Gagne | pp. 197–219
- Chapter 9. And the postcode darlin’. Vocative variation in service encounters on the telephone in Northern EnglandNicole Baumgarten | pp. 220–244
- Chapter 10. Nominal address and introductions in three national varieties of German: Intralinguistic variation and pragmatic transfer to EnglishDoris Schüpbach, John Hajek, Heinz L. Kretzenbacher and Catrin Norrby | pp. 245–271
- Chapter 11. Vós and other pronominal forms of address (tu, você, vocês): Speakers’ perceptions of Brazilian and European PortugueseIsabel Margarida Duarte and Maria Aldina Marques | pp. 272–293
- Chapter 12. Differences in the forms of address between standard Hungary Hungarian and Slovakia HungarianIldikó Vančo and István Kozmács | pp. 294–315
- Chapter 13. Forms of address in courtroom discourse in Englishes of the “Inner Circle”Vladimir Ozyumenko | pp. 316–339
- Chapter 14. Investigating address in regional varieties of Italian: Contrasting methodologiesAgnese Bresin | pp. 340–372
- Chapter 15. Hybrid agreement in polite address: A contrastive approach to Romance languagesSascha Gaglia | pp. 373–396
- Chapter 16. Address and politeness: A theoretical explorationRoel Vismans | pp. 397–422
- List of authors | pp. 423–427
- Index | pp. 429–432
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