Volume 06, Spring 1980

Permanent URI for this collection

https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/100066

Browse

Browsing Volume 06, Spring 1980 by Subject "Historical linguistics"

Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
  • Thumbnail Image
    ItemOpen Access
    Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 6, Spring 1980
    (University of Calgary, 1980-05) Doran, Christopher J.; Gibbons, Diana E.; Jehn, Richard Douglas
    This issue is the sixth in the series of working papers published by LOGOS, the Student Linguistics Society at The University of Calgary. The series provides a vehicle for faculty members and students to publish current research. These papers represent research in progress and are not to be considered final statements by the authors. The appearance of these articles in the current issue does not preclude their publication in altered form elsewhere.
  • Thumbnail Image
    ItemOpen Access
    The semantics of "Tu" and "Vous" diachronic and synchronic considerations
    (University of Calgary, 1980-05) Duff, Patricia A
    One of the functions of language is to reveal the role relations that exist between speakers. Roles are perceived by individuals, then evaluated in order that information provided by speech acts may be appropriately interpreted by speakers. Part of each speaker's communicative competence is a sophisticated set of rules, specific to one's cultural membership, which determine one's verbal behaviour. It has been observed by various linguists that social structure and grammatical patterns are profoundly linked. With regard to personal pronouns in particular, Friedrich (1963) claims that second person pronouns link abstract properties of a basic grammatical paradigm to a second matrix of culturally specific components of major emotional and social significance. Obligatory address forms are part of a speaker's communicative competence which fuse grammar and social categories in a very interesting way.