Languages have several grammatical means of expressing the relation between speaker
and addressee, including speech-style particles, politeness pronouns, allocutive marking …

This chapter explores the impact of culture and identity on discursive practices. It focuses on
the use of address forms by Indian bilinguals (speakers of Indian English and Hindi) in a …

Following the recent development of address research in pluricentric languages (Clyne et al.
2006), the present study describes address practices in English-speaking academic settings …

This book studies communication in institutional eldercare. It is based on audio-recorded
interactions between residents and staff in a Japanese care facility. The focus is on the …

This article explores the sociopragmatic functions of address terms in social interactions at
the University of Calabar Senior Staff Club. It takes into perspective the metalinguistic …

Building on the author's earlier work on address practices and focusing on the French words
monsieur and madame, this paper seeks to demonstrate that generic titles used daily across …

This chapter sets out to explore the theoretical relationship between address and politeness.
It explores the nature of address and discusses the concept of “address theory”, the need for …

In the 1960s, Swedish address practices underwent a change from an intricate system of
honorifics to universal use of the informal second-person singular du. This study challenges …

The study aims to identify the set of address forms used between Pakistani bi-/multilingual
faculty members in university settings when speaking English. We highlight the impact of …

The members of a community have conventionalized linguistic structures to convey both the
content of a message and the social status of the interlocutors. Crucial in the codification of …