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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  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: February 1992
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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
 
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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.
 
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