Publications

Publication details [#53604]

Pajusalu, Karl, Renate Pajusalu, Virve-Anneli Vihman and Birute Klaas. 2010. Forms of address across languages: Formal and informal second person pronoun usage among Estonia's linguistic communities. Intercultural Pragmatics 7 (1) : 75–101.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

address | bilingualism | person deixis | politeness | pronoun

Language as a subject

Estonian | Russian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IPRG/html

Annotation

This study on linguistic politeness in Estonia's bilingual Estonian-Russian society, focuses on forms of address in the different linguistic communities, comparing in particular the usage of formal or informal second person pronouns.