FORMS OF ADDRESS AND TERMS OF REFERENCE

This paper examines the relationship between the use of names and othe r words in address and in reference: how does the way that speaker A a ddresses B differ from the way that A refers to B, and what are the fa ctors affecting this difference? The study, based on observation and i nterviews, attempts both to solve a problem in pragmatics and to help historical linguists and others who need to know the extent to which i t may be justified to extrapolate from referential to address usage an d vice versa.