L’emploi des formes d’adresse en français, italien et espagnol péninsulaire : correspondances et différences
Forms of Address in French, Italian and Peninsular Spanish: Resemblances and Differences

Summary/Abstract: In the three examined Romance languages, the system of pronominal forms of address derives from Latin, but in each of them, it has developed in a slightly different way. The use and pragmatic function of nominal forms of address accompanying these pronouns can also vary according to the language. First, we shortly examine the diachronic development of forms of address and then focus on the speakers’ own representations of their actual use. The analysis is mainly based on three types of corpora collected according to identical principles (questionnaire, dialogues in contemporary novels and films). The examined sociolinguistic variables are age, the situation of communication and the relation between the speakers. The results are analysed from a contrastive point of view.

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