Vocatives: A Note on Addressee Management

Schaden, Gerhard

Document type :

Communication dans un congrès avec actes

Title :

Vocatives: A Note on Addressee Management

Author(s) :

Schaden, Gerhard [Auteur]

Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Conference title :

Penn Linguistics Colloquium

Country :

Etats-Unis d'Amérique

Start date of the conference :

2009

Book title :

University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics

Publication date :

2010

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

English abstract : [en]

The aim of this paper is to establish a semantic characterisation of vocatives, while leaving aside pragmatic and sociolinguistic considerations as far as possible. I will defend the 'IPA-hypothesis' of the meaning of ...
Show more >The aim of this paper is to establish a semantic characterisation of vocatives, while leaving aside pragmatic and sociolinguistic considerations as far as possible. I will defend the 'IPA-hypothesis' of the meaning of vocatives, that is, the hypothesis that vocatives have three basic functions: to identify the addressee(s), to predicate something on the addressee(s), and to activate the addressee(s). It will be argued that the traditional call vs. address dichotomy is insufficient.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

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