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How Spouses Used to Address Each Other：A Historical Pragmatic Approach to the Use of Vocatives in Early Modern English Comedies

eng

04412486

https://doi.org/10.15002/00002961

法政大学文学部

48

51

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2003-03-03

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Compared with other address terms such as thou and you, Which have been vigorously discussed since Brown and Gilman (1960), Vocatives are rather neglected in linguistic research in general. In this paper, I will focus on the use of vocatives between married couples in selected Early Modern English comedies. First, I will investigate sociolinguistic patterns in the usage of vocatives. With this in mind, I will then look at some deviant cases in which the previously observed general patterns are broken, thus foregrounded. In doing so, I aim to illustrate how the playwrights of the Early Modern English period exploit a variety of vocatives both to construct the human networks in their dramatic worlds as well as to create humorous effects. This is made possible by the interface of historical linguistics, pragmatics, stylistics, sociolinguistics as well as corpus linguistics. I combine a quantitative and qualitative analysis in order to abserve the roles of vocatives as discourse markers, and also to establish a theoretical model for the study of vocative forms.

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