| Abstrakt: |
Generally, it can be seen that most of the Urdu speakers from the western Uttar Pradesh frequently use address terms in formal as well as colloquial use for everyday conversation. Such usage is considered as an integral feature of socio-cultural aspects in terms of language and society. Such types of usage may be useful for sociolinguistic information especially pertaining to interlocutors, about their relationships and circumstances. In the past few decades such terms are studied in different languages of the world in which scholars have been focussing on identifying different types of 'addresses', for instance, personal names, general and occupation titles, kinship related terms, religion- oriented expressions, honorificity in terms of intimacy, personal pronouns, descriptive phrases, etymologies, etc. This work is an attempt to inquire accurate and proper use of the vast range of choices for addressing individuals of different age groups having various contexts being used by western Uttar Pradesh Urdu speakers. Furthermore, this study also shows a number of culture specific address terms which may not have English or Hindi equivalent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
