Publications

Publication details [#1137]

Bates, Elizabeth and Laura Benigni. 1975. Rules of address in Italy: A sociological survey. Language in Society 4 : 271–288.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | formality | social class | terms of address

Language as a subject

Italian

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

The results of 117 interviews with Italian adults (on the basis of a modified version of Brown and Gilman's questionnaire) show a strong interaction of age and social class at all levels of formality.