Address Variation in Sociocultural Context: Region, power and distance in Italian service encounters
Agnese Bresin
[Topics in Address Research, 2] 2021. xxi, 290 pp.
Agnese Bresin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Agnese Bresin plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
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
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
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