Socio-cultural factors determinating the choice of address forms in the Polish media in Lithuania

This article investigates the use of address forms in socio-public broadcast programmes of local Polish radio station „Znad Wilii“. The format of public debates conditions interlocutors to consider the social distance and the positon of the addressee in the hierarchy scale and the aforementioned aspects determine the choice of address forms. The aim of the research is to identify how socio-cultural factors (such as situational roles, level of acquintance, age difference, and position in society) determine the choice of address formsVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŠvietimo akademij