Many languages use honorifics to express politeness, social distance, or the relative social
status between the speaker and their addressee (s). In machine translation from a language …

This book explores both theoretical and practical issues of language use in a migration
context, using data from a German urban immigrant community in Canada. Through this …

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 …

Abstract In Netherlandish Dutch, Belgian Dutch, German, French, and Spanish, speakers
have a choice between formal (V) and informal (T) pronouns of address. We present a …

This article deals with the question of linguistic and cultural representation in film subtitles
from a cross-cultural pragmatics perspective, in relation to issues of cultural stereotyping and …

Anrede ist ein zur sozialen Positionierung von Gesprächspartnern wichtiges sprachliches
Mittel. Das metaphorische Konzept „Distanz “wird zur Beschreibung solcher sozialen …

Does it matter whether applicants are addressed with formal or informal pronouns in online
job interviews? This study shows that it does indeed, at least for speakers of French and …

The chapter offers a detailed description of address practices in Italian academic
interactions, based on the reported usage of address forms by students and lecturers via …

This article investigates forms of address, in particular the T/V distinction in German, in
conversational interviews with German-speaking immigrants to English-speaking Canada …

The present study aims at understanding how the use of Indonesian terms of address reflect
social and cultural relation in the classroom. The data of the study were collected through …