Dutch forms of address among students in Poland

Vol.31,No.1(2017)

Muriel Waterlot

https://doi.org/10.5817/BBGN2017-1-8

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/137321

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Abstract
This paper reports on a research on the use of Dutch forms of address (i.e. the second-person pronouns u and je/jij) among students in Poland. It takes the address model proposed by Brown en Gilman and the findings of the research of Hannie Vermaas and Roel Vismans on the present use of Dutch forms of address in the Netherlands as its theoretical inspiration. Moreover it homes in on domain (as defined by Fishman and Clyne et al.) as factor for choice of address forms. The paper is based on a quantitative analysis of a questionnaire in which Polish respondents of three universities in Poland were asked to point out which pronoun they use in order to address a variety of interlocutors. The research itself aims at finding out to what extend the Polish respondents are aware of the current sociolinguistic trends and changes in the use of forms of address in spoken Dutch in the Netherlands.

Keywords:
Dutch forms of address; forms of address; second language learning; cross-cultural research

Pages:
87–102
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