Address Pronouns in French: Variation within and outside the Workplace

Autor/in	Warren, Jane
Titel	Address Pronouns in French: Variation within and outside the Workplace
Quelle	In: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 29 (2006) 2, S.16 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0155-0640
DOI	10.2104/aral0616
Schlagwörter	Form Classes (Languages); Focus Groups; Foreign Countries; French; Work Environment; Language Usage; Language Variation; Contrastive Linguistics; Pragmatics; Australia; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analytischer Sprachbau; Ausland; Französisch; Arbeitsmilieu; Sprachgebrauch; Sprachenvielfalt; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Pragmalinguistik; Australien; Frankreich
Abstract	This article examines speakers' perceptions of and attitudes towards address pronoun usage in Paris and Toulouse. The data on which this article is based come from a comparative project based at the University of Melbourne, "Address in some western European languages, and were generated in focus groups in both Paris and Toulouse, as well as interviews in Paris. It is generally accepted that in France the informal pronominal address form "tu" is used within the family, with close friends and with youngsters, and that the formal address form "vous" is used by adults when addressing strangers. The findings presented here indicate that, outside these general tendencies, individual preferences and negotiation can inform the choice of address pronoun in different ways both within and outside the workplace, with individual variation more common outside the work domain. (Contains 4 endnotes.) (As Provided).
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