Pronouns of address in recruitment advertisements from multinational companies

Abstract In Netherlandish Dutch, Belgian German, French, and Spanish, speakers have a choice between formal (V) informal (T) pronouns of address. We present quantitative study how V T are used on recruitment pages multinational companies. Our corpus-based method is inspired by studies address in Dutch Vismans (2007) Waterlot (2014) . Unlike these earlier studies, we provide comparison the same companies recruiting different countries, thereby strengthening V- T-forms languages. find preference for ads while French. There seems to be no clear either or German , which may reflect that preferences changing ambiguous.