The Cultural Semantics of Address Practices: A Contrastive Study Between English and Italian

ISBN-13: 9781498579278 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 306 str.

Gian Marco Farese

Opis

This book presents a contrastive analysis of various forms of address used in English and Italian from a cultural semantics perspective. The analysis investigates the different cultural values underlying address practices in English and Italian and emphasizes the risks of miscommunication caused by differences in intercultural interactions.