Introduction: 'Address as Social Action Across Cultures and Contexts' from book: Address Practice as Social Action: European Perspectives

• Main Author: Norrby, Catrin (auth)
• Other Authors: Wide, Camilla (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2015
• Subjects: applied linguistics; discourse analysis; communication; pragmatics; sociolinguistics
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This is the introductory chapter of Address Practice as Social Action: European Perspectives. It is open access under a CC BY license. How we address one another says a great deal about our social relationships and which groups in society we belong to. This edited volume examines address choices in...