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The way in which people address one another is crucial to expressing social relationships and is closely linked with cultural values. In English we call some people by their first names, and others 'Mr' or 'Ms', followed by their surname. In some other languages there are different ways of saying 'you' depending on the degree of social distance. Exploring practices in the family, school, university, the workplace and in letters, this book reveals patterns in the varied ways people choose to address one another, from pronouns to first names, from honorifics to titles and last names. Examples are taken from contemporary English, French, German and Swedish, using rich data from focus group research, interviews, chat groups, and participant observation.

Grammar --- Sociolinguistics --- Forms of address. --- Politeness (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Honorific. --- Pronoun. --- Politeness (Linguistics). --- Pronouns --- Honorific --- Courtesy (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Address, Forms of --- Address, Titles of --- Titles of address --- Letter writing --- Salutations --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Function words --- Nominals --- Reflexives --- Polite form --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Honorific --- Formes allocutoires --- Énonciation (linguistique) --- Pragmatique --- Grammaire comparée --- Pronoms --- Énonciation (linguistique) --- Grammaire comparée

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Address term systems and their diachronic developments are discussed in a wide range of European languages in this volume. Most chapters focus on pronominal systems, and in particular on the criteria that govern the choices between a more intimate and a more distant or polite pronoun, as for instance thou and you in Early Modern English, vos and vuestra merced in sixteenth century Spanish or du and Sie in Modern German. Several contributions deal with situations in which more than two terms can be used and several also note co-occurrence patterns of pronominal and nominal forms of address. The volume provides a multivaried picture of the evolutionary lines of address term systems and a representative range of current approaches from pragmatics and sociolinguistics to conversation analysis. It is thus a timely contribution to the rapidly expanding field of historical pragmatics.

Historical linguistics --- Pragmatics --- 800 <09> --- 800 <09> Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Geschiedenis van ... --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Geschiedenis van ... --- Forms of address --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Address, Forms of --- Address, Titles of --- Titles of address --- Letter writing --- Salutations --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Geschiedenis van .. --- History --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek--Geschiedenis van --- Forms of address. --- Historical linguistics. --- Linguistique historique --- Énonciation (linguistique) --- Formes allocutoires --- Énonciation (linguistique)