Choice of address terms in conversational setting

Abstract

A choice of an address term signals the relationship between language and society and how a person imagines his/her relationship with the addressee within this society. Address terms, therefore, provides sociolinguistic information about the interlocutors as well as pragmatic aspect of the situation. Previous research have focused on the effect of power and solidarity in the choice of address terms. This study, on the other hand, focuses on the address terms used during spontaneous conversation taking place in a no-power situation. The primary concern of the study is to identify the potential effects of a bilingual situation and a different culture. This study investigated the address terms school children use in a reciprocal situation, which are further analyzed regarding the potential effect of age, gender and being monolingual or bilingual in this issue. For this purpose, the group conversations of 56 monolingual Turkish speaking and 48 monolingual Turkish-Danish speaking children were analyzed. The address terms are coded and classified as emerged from the data. The results have shown that monolingual children use a great variety of address terms while bilingual children dwell on first names more frequently. Choice of address forms are governed by politeness, and positive and negative face. The results will lead to awareness-raising on pragmatic aspects of conversations and social relationship and will have implications on educational context especially in bilingual settings.

Diversity of Sundanese Forms of Address Usage in Family

“…T is used to address whose position is considered lower than the speaker, such as angry or intimate expressions, while V is used to address whose position is considered higher than the speaker, such as respect. In Sundanese, the use of addresses in the form of personal pronouns that show respect, solidarity, and also emotion cannot be separated from the speech levels of the language 'undak-usuk basa' as shown in data (27) This data describes a father who is angry with his daughter. The utterance in this angry situation can be seen below.…”

“…Utterance (27) uses the form of address yang which is addressed to the addressee in a normal situation, whereas in an angry situation, the speaker chooses to use the form of address maneh 'you' to the addressee. The relationship between speaker and speaker is intimate.…”

“…Many things are considered by speakers when addressing other speakers. It can be age, gender, social status, family relationship, situation, sociocultural background, familiarity and speakers' social distance which can indicate how the relationship is established between the speakers and addressees (Mardiha, 2012;Özcan, 2016). Other matters relating to identity such as perceptions of local and global contexts, language attitudes and language ideology, and patterns of socialization are also things that must be considered in addressing speakers (Afful, 2010;Liebscher et al, 2022;Rahardi, 2022).…”

Noun Form of Address of Characters in the 21 Jump Street Movie

“…Oyetade (1995), analysed address forms in Yoruba. Ozcan (2016), discussed the choice of address terms: conversational setting. Salihu 2014, analysed the sociolinguistics study of gender address patterns in the Hausa society.…”

Analysis of Address Terms in Justice League Movie

“…There were several researches about address terms have done before. Ozcan (2016) focused the research on the use of address terms in spontaneous conversation took place in a no power situation. The main focus of the research was to identify the potential effect of bilingual situations and different cultures.…”