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Swedish language --- Second language acquisition. --- Svenska som andraspråk. --- Second language acquisition. --- Swedish language --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers. --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers.

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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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This volume explores linguistic diversity and complexity in different urban contexts, many of which have never been subject to significant sociolinguistic inquiry. A novel mixture of cities of varying size from around the world is studied, from megacities to smaller cities on the national periphery. All chapters discuss either the multilingualism or the pluricentric aspect of the linguistic diversity in urban areas, most focussing on one urban centre. The book showcases multiple approaches ranging from a quantitative investigation based partly on census data, to qualitative studies flowing, for example, from extensive ethnographic work or discourse analysis. The diverse theoretical backgrounds and methodological approaches in the individual chapters are complemented by two chapters outlining the current trends and debates in the sociolinguistic research on urban multilingualism and pluricentricity and suggesting some possible directions for future investigations in this field.The book thus provides a broad overview of sociolinguistic research of multilingual places and pluricentric languages.

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This volume comprises 28 papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages in Graz (Austria) in July 2011. The conference was also held in memory of Michael Clyne - eminent linguist, scholar, language enthusiast and advocate of multilingualism who died in October 2010. The volume pays homage to his important contributions in many fields of linguistics and in the theory of pluricentric languages. The conference in Graz was the first international event to document the situation of non-dominant varieties world-wide in order to identify commo

German language --- Dialectology --- Language and languages -- Variation -- Congresses. --- Linguistics. --- Multilingualism -- Congresses. --- Sociolinguistics -- Congresses. --- Language and languages --- Multilingualism --- Sociolinguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Variation --- Comparative linguistics --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Variation linguistique --- Congrès