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Mills, Carl – 1988
Choice of second-person pronouns can help explain the intersection of language, personality, and culture. Changes in modern Norway are described in which the polite forms "de,""dem"/"dykk," and "deres"/"dykkar" have been replaced in all except commercial, government, or ultra-polite speech by the…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Diglossia, English, Foreign Countries
