National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)
Date Written: December 14, 2018
Abstract
This paper discusses terms of address that are used in Russian child-parent communication focusing on the gender of the speakers. The data for the study come from a large-scale online survey completed by 1103 subjects. We identify 10 basic patterns of addressing parents and six basic patterns of addressing children. The results show that females tend to use more suffixed forms when addressing their parents, whereas males are inclined to use harsher-sounding forms of address like batja ‘father (informal)’. When addressing their children, females use suffixed diminutive forms and animal names more frequently than males.
Keywords: Russian, politeness, sociolinguistics, terms of address, gender, child-parent communication
Piperski, Alexander and Aplonova, Ekaterina and Grabovskaya, Maria and Gridneva, Ekaterina and Ivtushok, Elizaveta and Naumova, Viktoria and Orlenko, Anastasia and Senkina, Diana, How Mothers and Fathers Address their Sons and Daughters in Russian and Vice Versa: A Quantitative Study (December 14, 2018). Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 69/LNG/2018, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3301196 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3301196
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