“You can say you to me”
Address in German
e-Book – Open Access
ISBN 9789027243188
The forms of address in German and their usage have been debated for centuries, and the discussion about is ongoing both in academia and in the wider public. This collection is a showcase of the current and emerging research for an international audience. The scope of topics in this volume covers German forms of address from the 15th to the 21st centuries, from northern Germany to southern Africa, from face-to-face communication to online chatting, and from private discourse to service encounters. Utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods, the individual contributions draw upon historical philology-based linguistics, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, as well as metapragmatic, interactional, multilingual, and pluricentric perspectives.
[Topics in Address Research, 7] Expected December 2026. vi, 273 pp. + index
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Table of Contents
- Chapter 1. Du, Sie, and beyond: German addressing practicesHeinz L. Kretzenbacher, Horst J. Simon and Christa Dürscheid | pp. 1–10
- Part I. (Micro-)diachronic linguistics
- Chapter 2. Vocative, where are you going, man? Cyclicity in pragmaticalization: From vocative to discourse marker and interjectionAntje Dammel and Melitta Gillmann | pp. 12–46
- Chapter 3. How to address the suster and the frundinne: Late medieval forms of address in the epistolary culture of a North German conventLena Vosding | pp. 47–72
- Part II. Address forms (metapragmatics)
- Chapter 4. “A case of du or die” in marketing? A survey on the perception of pronominal address in service encountersHeinz L. Kretzenbacher and Susanne Hensel-Börner | pp. 74–92
- Chapter 5. Address in metapragmatic discourse: Stereotypical forms, evaluations, and attitudesPhilipp Striedl | pp. 93–114
- Chapter 6. How and why choosing the wrong form of address may make you look like a boomer or a Karen: Characterological figures on social mediaNaomi Truan | pp. 115–131
- Part III. Address forms (interactional linguistics)
- Chapter 7. The use of German nominal address forms in institutional interaction: A comparative study across medical encounters, driving lessons, and oral examinationsMinka Džanko | pp. 134–156
- Chapter 8. Addressing others by name in digital communication: An interactional perspective on vocatives in dyadic WhatsApp chatsNathalie Bauer | pp. 157–175
- Chapter 9. Summoning by name in co-present interaction: On its temporality, sequentiality, and multimodalityPepe Droste | pp. 176–197
- Chapter 10. “Schöne Pyjama für Sie, Abla!”: Forms of address in language contact: Usage patterns and pragmatics of address at a linguistically highly diverse street market in Berlinİrem Duman Çakır and Ulrike Freywald | pp. 198–221
- Part IV. Pluricentric perspective
- Chapter 11. Vocatives in Namibian German: Multilingual identities between interconnection and autonomyHenning Radke and Arjen Versloot | pp. 224–248
- Chapter 12. Address on South Tyrolean websitesMarie A. Rieger | pp. 249–273