Indexed Address Bibliography Details

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The Indexed Address Bibliography lists publications that deal with address and related phenomena in several languages. It has been (and continues to be) compiled by the researchers of the project "Address in Some Western European Languages" as a tool for their own research and as a means of outreach to all researchers in the field .

Focus and scope of the bibliography

The bibliography is focussed on research into address and related phenomena from either a theoretical or a practical (or even prescriptive) perspective. It is also focussed on research into address in the three languages that our project is specifically interested in (French, German and Swedish). Beyond that focus, the scope of the bibliography is extended to other languages and other sociolinguistic phenomena that we find in some way relevant to our research. The scope is, however, limited to publications in those languages in which at least one of the researchers in the project has sufficient reading skills (English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish).

Keywords and search

We decided to keep the format of the bibliography simple, in order to keep it easy to search it with the "find" function of any web browser, as well as to keep it easy to update. Keywords are separated by opening square brackets, so that the "find" function does not pick up the same words in titles of texts etc. - but, unlike in the keywords that appear next to each publication entry, they are not separated by closing square brackets, since in the bibliography often there are specific page numbers indicated alongside the keywords.

Thus, a search for [deference will come up with [deference 293-296 in the row of the publication Agha, Asif: "Honorification", Annual Review of Anthropology 23 (1994), 277-302 as well as with [deference in the row of the publication Agha, Asif: "Stereotypes and registers of honorific language", Language in Society 27.2 (1998), 151-193. This signifies that pp. 293-296 in Agha 1994 as well as the whole of Agha 1998 are considered relevant for the keyword "deference". The same search will also pick up the keyword [deference in the row of Fraser, Bruce / Nolen, William: "The association of deference with linguistic form", International journal of the sociology of language 27 (1981), 93-109, but not the same word in the title of the article, and nor the title Johnstone, Barbara: 'You gone have to learn to talk right': Linguistic deference and regional dialect in Harry Crews's Body ", in: Bernstein, Cynthia Goldin (ed.): The text and beyond: essays in literary linguistics, Tuscaloosa - London: University of Alabama Press 1994, 278-295, where "deference" is not considered sufficiently relevant in the text of the article to warrant a keyword index entry.

Feedback and amendments to the bibliography

We do our best to physically check every publication that we enter in the bibliography, in order to verify the exact title and publication details as well as to identify relevant index keywords. Typos and similar errors still occur, though, so we constantly amend the bibliography, as well as enlarge it. We would appreciate any feedback very much that allows us to turn this bibliography into a more useful instrument of international co-operation in linguistic research on address. Please address (!) any feedback to the researcher responsible for the bibliography, Leo Kretzenbacher, email: heinz@unimelb.edu.au.

Search terms

The indexed Address bibliography can be browsed using any web-browser and has been indexed for the following keywords:

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