Abstract Korean speech styles ( hapsyo-chey and hayyo-chey in particular) are compared with Finnish terms of address from the perspective KFL learners, focusing on three variables, namely “power”, “distance”, “imposition” Brown Levinson, 1987 ). The comparison is based Peterson (2010) , which current study replicates. data were collected during a Discourse Completion Task: seventy-eight native ...

This study investigates the key forms of address used amongst Jordanian university students, impact gender on using these and what accounts for variation in their system. By addressing issue normativity heterogeneity use terms, different social settings, enriches understanding internal term Data collected through questionnaires semi-structured interviews were analysed, based Watts’ discursive a...