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Publication details [#10029]
Whitcut, Janet. 1980. The language of address. In Michaels, Leonard and Christopher Ricks, eds. The state of the language. University of California Press. pp. 89–97.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
W. shows that even with only one second person pronoun, speakers of English manipulate a range of immensely numerous, complicated and delicate address forms.