TY - T1 - What is in a greeting? The social meaning of greetings in Sweden-Swedish and Finland-Swedish service encounters : The social meaning of greetings in Sweden-Swedish and Finland-Swedish service encounters SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/320433 T3 - A1 - Nilsson, Jenny; Norrby, Catrin; Bohman, Love; Skogmyr Marian, Klara; Wide, Camilla; Lindström, Jan A2 - PB - Y1 - 2020 LA - eng AB - This study investigates the use of greetings in Sweden-Swedish and Finland-Swedish service encounters and the social meaning of different greeting forms. Situated within the framework of variational pragmatics, the study explores Swedish as a pluricentric language and investigates with interactional and statistical analyses to what extent the variable nation affect variation in greeting forms. While nation indeed is an important factor, the study also illustrates how social variables such as age... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 6121 Languages; Greetings; variational pragmatics; Interactional analysis; Statistical analysis; Indexicality; Pluricentric languages; Service encounters; Greetings; Variational pragmatics; Interactional analysis; Statistical analysis; Indexicality; Pluricentric languages; Service encounters; AMERICAN N1 - PP - ER -