| A Socio-Historical Study in Address: Polish and English Contributor(s): Viereck, Wolfgang (Editor), Kielkiewicz-Janowiak, Agnieszka (Author), Viereck, Wolfgang (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631447337 ISBN-13: 9783631447338 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Polish - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Social Science |
| Dewey: 491.855 |
| LCCN: 92006264 |
| Series: Europaische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XVIII, Vergleichende L |
| Physical Information: 132 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Another contribution to the discussion about the social meaning of address forms, this book is primarily concerned with address system change. An account of aspects of the history of Polish and English address - based on literary text analysis - serves to illustrate the hypothesis that there is a tendency for new distance-coding address forms to arise whenever older forms lose their distinctive force. The author also describes how grammatical category shifts, such as pluralization or pronominalization, have in turn marked degrees of social distance encoded in Polish and English address forms as they developed through time. |