Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Diachronic research on address in Portuguese and Spanish 7
5. Forms of address in the south-western Sprachbund of the Iberian Peninsula 71
6. Forms of address from the Ibero-Romance perspective 111
7. Variation and change in the second person singular pronouns tu and você in Santa Catarina (Brazil) 155
8. Forms of address in São Paulo 207
9. Variation in the paradigms of tu and você 227
10. Retracing the historical evolution of the Portuguese address pronoun você using synchronic variationist data 251
11. The loss of vosotros in American Spanish 291
12. Vuestra atención, por favor ‘your attention, please’. Some remarks on the usage and history of plural vuestro/a in Cusco Spanish (Peru) 317
13. Prescriptive and descriptive norms in second person singular forms of address in Argentinean Spanish 361
14. Addressing in two presidential election debates in Mexico (1994 and 2012) 385
15. The European roots of the present-day Americanism su merced 413
16. Linguistic change and social transformation 443