It’s not all about you
New perspectives on address research
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The twenty-first century has seen a surge in cross-linguistic research on forms of address from increasingly diverse and complementary perspectives. The present edited collection is the inaugural volume of Topics in Address Research, a series that aims to reflect that growing interest. The volume includes an overview, followed by seventeen chapters organized in five sections covering new methodological and theoretical approaches, variation and change, address in digital and audiovisual media, nominal address, and self- and third-person reference. This collection includes work on Cameroonian French, Czech, Dutch, English (from the US, UK, Australia, and Canada), Finnish, Italian, Mongolian, Palenquero Creole, Portuguese, Slovak, and Spanish (in its Peninsular and American varieties). By presenting the work in English, the book offers a bridge among researchers in different language families. It will be of interest to pragmatists, sociolinguists, typologists, and anyone focused on the emergence and evolution of this central aspect of verbal communication.
[Topics in Address Research, 1] 2019. vi, 447 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Address and address research: Here’s looking at you, kidMaría Irene Moyna, Bettina Kluge and Horst J. Simon | pp. 1–20
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Looking backwards, looking forwards: Overviews and new approaches
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A literature review of address studies from pragmatic and sociolinguistic perspectivesThoai N. L. Ton | pp. 23–46
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On translating pronominal and nominal terms of address: State of the art and future directionsBettina Kluge | pp. 47–74
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Examining Twitter as a source for address research using Colombian SpanishDaniel Foster, Suzanne Aalberse and Wessel Stoop | pp. 75–98
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Imaginary customers and public figures: Visual material as stimuli in studies of address practicesHanna Lappalainen | pp. 99–122
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Variation and change: Address over space and time
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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)Heinz L. Kretzenbacher, John Hajek, Robert Lagerberg and Agnese Bresin | pp. 125–138
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On address pronouns in the history of Brazilian PortugueseCélia Regina dos Santos Lopes and Leonardo Lennertz Marcotulio | pp. 139–160
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Palenquero Creole: The syntax of second person pronouns and the pragmatics of address switchingMiguel Gutiérrez Maté | pp. 161–190
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Variation in polite address in contemporary Uruguayan SpanishMaría Irene Moyna | pp. 191–220
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Transition from V to T address among restaurant customers and waiters in ItalyAgnese Bresin, John Hajek and Heinz L. Kretzenbacher | pp. 221–250
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Reflections of address in digital and visual media
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Address negotiations in Dutch emailsRoel Vismans | pp. 253–280
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The variable functions of addressing hearer-participants with Spanish second person object forms in media discourseMaría José Serrano | pp. 281–304
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Pragmatic and grammatical categories for the analysis of forms of address in presidential election debatesMaría Eugenia Vázquez Laslop | pp. 305–332
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Nominal address
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Nominal address strategies in Cameroon French: Between lexical creativity and pragmaticsBernard Mulo Farenkia | pp. 335–354
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Brocatives: Self-reported use of masculine nominal vocatives in Manitoba (Canada)Matthew Urichuk and Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez | pp. 355–372
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Address, the self, and the other
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Introductions at international academic conferences: Address and naming in three national varieties of EnglishCatrin Norrby, Doris Schüpbach, John Hajek and Heinz L. Kretzenbacher | pp. 375–396
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Person-referring expressions, reference nominals, and address nominals: Informalization in an Illinois neighborhood social groupSusan Meredith Burt | pp. 397–414
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Terms of address and self-reference in Ulaanbaatar MongolianBenjamin Brosig | pp. 415–434
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Index
“[T]his volume is a reader-friendly and carefully edited text. It provides a rich set of cases and examples for analyzing address in novel or interesting ways, and it covers an array of methods and approaches that will contribute to more research and to methodological and theoretical advancements.”
Karin Aronsson, Stockholm University, in Journal of Pragmatics 178 (2021)
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Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath, Abigail C. Cohn, Dwi Noverini Djenar & Rachel C. Vogel
2021. Jakarta Indonesian first-person singular pronouns. Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:2 ► pp. 185 ff. 
Djenar, Dwi Noverini
2024. Levelling, differentiation and structure of feeling: Address and interlocutor reference in Indonesian political interviews. Discourse & Society
Gutiérrez Maté, Miguel & Patricia Uhl
2023.
No quiero batirme con vos... ni reñir contigo
. Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 36:2 ► pp. 499 ff.
Khalil, Amr A.A. & Tatiana V. Larina
2022. Terms of Endearment in American English and Syrian Arabic Family Discourse. RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics 13:1 ► pp. 27 ff.
Lappalainen, Hanna & Ildikó Vecsernyés
2023. Chapter 1. Comparing address practices in the Finnish and Hungarian “Got Talent” TV programmes. In It's different with you [Topics in Address Research, 5], ► pp. 13 ff.
Larina, Tatiana & Neelakshi Suryanarayan
2023. Chapter 6. Address forms in academic discourse in Indian English. In It's different with you [Topics in Address Research, 5], ► pp. 142 ff.
Manole, Veronica
2021. As formas de tratamento na abordagem multissistémica: um novo modelo teórico de análise. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 66:4 ► pp. 81 ff.
Ollier, Joseph, Marcia Nißen & Florian von Wangenheim
2022. The Terms of “You(s)”: How the Term of Address Used by Conversational Agents Influences User Evaluations in French and German Linguaculture. Frontiers in Public Health 9
Ozyumenko, Vladimir I.
2023. Chapter 13. Forms of address in courtroom discourse in Englishes of the “Inner Circle”. In It's different with you [Topics in Address Research, 5], ► pp. 316 ff.
Rosseel, Laura, Eline Zenner, Fabian Faviana & Bavo Van Landeghem
2024. The (Lack of) Salience of T/V Pronouns in Professional Communication: Evidence from an Experimental Study for Belgian Dutch. Languages 9:3 ► pp. 112 ff.
Schüpbach, Doris, John Hajek, Heinz L. Kretzenbacher & Catrin Norrby
2021. Approaches to the study of address in pluricentric languages: methodological reflections
. Sociolinguistica 35:1 ► pp. 165 ff.
Vismans, Roel
2023. Chapter 16. Address and politeness. In It's different with you [Topics in Address Research, 5], ► pp. 397 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics