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Tiles In A Multilingual Mosaic. Macedonian, Filipino, and Somali in Melbourne

CLYNE, M ; KIPP, S (Pacific Linguistics Publishers, 2006)
Australia's community languages¹

Clyne, M ; Kipp, S (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2006-12-01)
Empowerment through the community language- A challenge

CLYNE, M (Walter de Gruyter, 2006)
Perceptions of variation and change in German and Swedish address

CLYNE, M ; KRETZENBACHER, H ; NORRBY, C ; SCHUPBACH, D (Wiley, 2006)

German and Swedish speakers diverge in contemporary address practice. The Swedish T form has become unmarked, with V limited to very specific situations. Apart from some specific T or V contexts, German now has coexistent systems, one with T, the other with V as the unmarked form, with different speakers or networks preferring one or the other. In an ongoing project, focus groups and participant observation in Austria, (eastern and western) Germany and Sweden and with Swedish speakers in Finland have identified factors and contexts determining degree of social distance and hence address choice. First name use is more marked than T use in Swedish but the two are closely linked in German. National variation is more substantial in Swedish than in German. In both languages there is some reversal of liberalization and distaste for imposition of the address form.