The Emergence of German Polite «Sie»: Cognitive and Sociolinguistic Parameters

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For a speaker of German the tone of personal interaction is set by his or her choice of address pronoun. Relationships are both created and reflected in the use of du or Sie in conversation. The Emergence of German Polite 'Sie' uncovers the sociocultural and cognitive linguistic strategies that originally brought the third person plural Sie address into the German language some three hundred years ago. Although a widely...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0820438537

ISBN13:9780820438535

Release Date:January 1999

Publisher:Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi

Length:373 Pages

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