Forms of address in Jordanian Arabic with some additional references to speech fellowships

Abstract

The thesis is primarily concerned with the investigation, within a socio-linguistic framework, of linguistic forms of address regularly observed in Jordanian Speech, having regard particularly to the status and role-relations of interlocutors. The linguistic characteristics of such relations are stated in lexical, grammatical and phonological terms and some attention is paid to interrelationships obtaining between these levels. In addition, a specification is given of important linguistic features characterizing Jordanian speech fellowships and a statement made as to variation in forts of address according to the speech fellowships of interlocutors.