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Complex address practices in Finland-Swedish: Actual and reported use of address in service encounters
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2359-4046
2025 (English)In: Beyond Binaries in Address Research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction / [ed] Víctor Fernández-Mallat; María Irene Moyna, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025, p. 146-170Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter compares actual address in service situations with reported use and perceptions of address. We focus on Finland-Swedish and compare it with Sweden-Swedish to highlight typical features of Finland-Swedish address practices. Our data come from two sources: observations of address practices in service encounters and responses to a questionnaire administered to Finland-Swedish speakers, which explored address use in service situations. Findings show that Finland-Swedish address practices go beyond a conventional T/V dichotomy. T address dominates, but V address still occurs to some extent in service contexts.Nevertheless, some speakers find V address highly inappropriate. Furthermore, plural V and absence of direct address are common in service contexts. Our results confirm the non-binary character of the Finland-Swedish address system.

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Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2025. p. 146-170
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Topics in Address Research, ISSN 2405-9269 ; 6
Keywords [en]
Swedish, Finland-Swedish, service encounters, address practices, variation
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Comparative Language Studies and Linguistics
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Scandinavian Languages; Linguistics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-245811DOI: 10.1075/tar.6.07widISI: 001610072800007ISBN: 9789027228215 (print)ISBN: 9789027244635 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-245811DiVA, id: diva2:1990651
Available from: 2025-08-20 Created: 2025-08-20 Last updated: 2026-02-02Bibliographically approved

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