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Publication details [#46503]

Axelson, Elizabeth. 2007. Vocatives: A double-edged strategy in intercultural discourse among graduate students. Pragmatics 17 (1) : 95–122.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

Drawing on a critical interactional sociolinguistic approach, this paper argues that the interculturality contruction via vocative use in a multicultural American-Japanese graduate university student group in the U.S. adds to the generation of an interculturality of subordination and artificial intimacy, restricting American members' possibilities to learn from their Japanese fellow students.