Beyond Biries in Address Research : Politeness and identity practices in interaction

shifts the focus of address studies away from the traditiol T/V opposition and toward a more flexible, contextually situated framework. The volume brings together linguistic phenome that do not fit neatly within the formal/informal duality. The chapters explore several languages, including European Portuguese, Spanish varieties, Caribbean Dutch, Swedish, German, Bosnian, Hungar-ian, and Syrian Arabic. The alytical approaches are equally diverse, challenging biry dis-tinctions through quantitative methods such as survey response alysis, attitudil experi-ments using the Matched Guise Test, data clustering, and qualitative alyses of interaction and metadiscourse. The ten chapters are accompanied by an introduction that situates the discussion within the broader critique of biry approaches to address over time.This book will interest scholars engaged in address research, broadly defined to include socio-linguistics, language variation and change, pragmatics, politeness studies, comparative linguis-tics, and

intercultural communication. [Publisher's text]