Situated Address in the United States Marine Corps.

Jonz, Jon G.

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Publication Date: 1975

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Situated Address in the United States Marine Corps

Jonz, Jon G.

Anthropological Linguistics, 17, 2, 68-77, Feb 75

Discusses ways of addressing superiors, inferiors and peers in a war zone setting, Vietnam 1965-70. Charts are given of address forms for enlisted men and non-commissioned officers. Also discussed are addresses during action. Degrees of intimacy for various titles are explained. (SC)

Descriptors: Armed Forces, Language Usage, Sociocultural Patterns, Sociolinguistics, Speech Communication

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