Udział tytulatury standardowej w konwersacyjnych wołaczowych formach adresatywnych doby średniopolskiej
THE PARTICIPATION OF STANDARD TITLES IN CONVERSATIONAL VOCATIVE ADDRESS FORMS IN MIDDLE POLISH

Summary/Abstract: By standard titles we understand the forms of addressing other person used in statements, in which social linguistic and moral conventions prohibited the use of pronominal form: ty. The study material is divided in accordance to symmetry or asymmetry of relations between participants in a discourse as well as primary belonging to semantic fields (titles originating from titles of higher ranks in civil services, kinship titles, names of moral values, etc.). The paper describes the alterations of function and form. The titles initially ascribed to higher social classes were usually transferred to lower classes. The one-word forms were the majority The paper presents the rules of distribution of elements in extended forms.

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