Language and Human Relations - Styles of Address in Contemporary Language

Informationen zum Autor Michael Clyne is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. Catrin Norrby is an Associate Professor and Reader in Swedish in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. Jane Warren is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. Klappentext Exploring practices in the family, school, the workplace, this book investigates the varied ways people choose to address one another. Zusammenfassung Exploring practices in the family! school! university! the workplace and in letters! this book reveals patterns in the varied ways people choose to address one another! from pronouns to first names! from honorifics to titles and last names. The authors use examples from English! French! German and Swedish. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Multiple approaches for a complex issue; 3. Contextualising address choice; 4. Institutions, domains and medium; 5. National variation; 6. Conclusions.

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• Authors: Michael Clyne, Michael (University of Melbourne) Norrby Clyne, Michael Kretzenbacher Clyne, Catrin Norrby, Jane Warren
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521870627
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87062-7
• No. of pages: 196
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures