Address Terms Used among Male Basketball Players at a Ghanaian University

In the last three decades, there has been an increasing interest among scholars in the use of address terms across domains such as academia, politics, religion, family, friendship, and sports. The present study examines the range of address terms and the factors that influence their use among male basketball players in a Ghanaian university. In this study, we draw on the notion of community of practice. An ethnographic research approach, comprising mainly participant and non-participant observation and interview, was adopted in collecting our data. Two key findings emerged from the analysis. First, Ghanaian male university students used four major categories of address terms while playing basketball: personal names, descriptive terms, nicknames, and ethnic-related terms. Second, in general, these address forms constituted an isogloss or idiolect, identifying the male basketball players as a distinct community of practice. These findings have implications for the sociolinguistic research on address terms in the domain of sports, gendered language, and further research on communication in sports.

A sociolinguistic study of address terms in a Nigerian university’s staff club

This article explores the sociopragmatic functions of address terms in social interactions at the University of Calabar Senior Staff Club. It takes into perspective the metalinguistic categories of address terms, their motivations, and the cultural and sociolinguistic parameters that determine their choice among Club members. The study is rooted in social identity theory and community of practice (CoP) analytical framework as are theorized in contemporary sociolinguistic literature. The study identifies nicknames, titles, acronyms, formulaic appellations, clipped personal names and extended personal names as the primary types of address terms in the Club, and articulates that the use of address terms is a social construction of identity that enacts intimacy, fosters collective belonging, and enhances solidarity. Conversely, address terms can also reinforce social division and inequality given the hierarchical structure of the Club which does not license reciprocal use of some address terms. The study concludes that address terms are a site of highly creative use of language which is reflexively framed through humour, clipping, lengthening, language play and other linguistic devices. Generally, address terms provide mechanisms for members to bond socially and adapt flexibly to the socio-academic environment of the Club.

Address terms in New Zealand English: Tracking changes to the social indexicality of gendered terms of address

<p>Recent research has suggested that some conventionally masculine address terms are becoming more gender neutral in English speaking countries. This study examines the four most prominent gendered address forms in New Zealand English: mate, bro, man and guys in order to gain insight into the terms’ social indexicalities, and track any shifts towards gender neutrality. The study takes a mixed-methods approach to analysing two distinct data sets: four corpora of spoken New Zealand English and a data set collected from a range of current media sources. Results from this study suggest that mate is in retreat in younger New Zealanders’ speech, while bro may be increasing in usage as an unmarked form. Results also suggest that both man and guys have a largely gender free status and are being used frequently in New Zealand. These findings contribute to the growing interest sociolinguists are taking in informal address terms by providing an analysis of the interactional and social functions of address forms in New Zealand English.</p>

Address terms in New Zealand English: Tracking changes to the social indexicality of gendered terms of address

<p>Recent research has suggested that some conventionally masculine address terms are becoming more gender neutral in English speaking countries. This study examines the four most prominent gendered address forms in New Zealand English: mate, bro, man and guys in order to gain insight into the terms’ social indexicalities, and track any shifts towards gender neutrality. The study takes a mixed-methods approach to analysing two distinct data sets: four corpora of spoken New Zealand English and a data set collected from a range of current media sources. Results from this study suggest that mate is in retreat in younger New Zealanders’ speech, while bro may be increasing in usage as an unmarked form. Results also suggest that both man and guys have a largely gender free status and are being used frequently in New Zealand. These findings contribute to the growing interest sociolinguists are taking in informal address terms by providing an analysis of the interactional and social functions of address forms in New Zealand English.</p>

Translation Analysis of Address Terms in the Novel Entitled Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief

<p>The aims of this study are to identify the type of address terms found in an English novel entitled <em>Percy Jackson &amp; The Olympians: The lightning thief</em>, to identify translation techniques used by the Indonesian translator to translate the address terms, and to describe translation quality of address terms in the novel entitled <em>Percy Jackson &amp; The Olympians: The lightning thief</em>.</p><p>It is a qualitative study of which data are words and phrases accommodating address terms in English as source text and it’s translation as target text. The data were collected through content analysis and focus group discussion. The collected data were then analyzed based on data analysis model which is proposed by Spradley.</p><p>There are 15 types of address term found in the novel. The translator uses established equivalent to translate type of address terms in the novel, such as title, generic first name, mockery name, etc. She also uses pure borrowing to translate first name, diminutive name, last name, etc. The accuracy and the acceptability of the translation of the address terms are quite high. It is a result of the application of established equivalent technique and pure borrowing.</p>

TERMS OF ADDRESS IN PESISIR BARUS NORTH SUMATERA

The writer was found the result of this study about Terms of Address in Pesisir Barus Notrth Sumatera Kecamatan Barus, Kabupaten Tapanuli Tengah. this study aims to determine the kinds and factors of using Address Terms in Pesisir Barus community. And the data use by applying descriptive qualitative and quantitative method. The source of data was taken from the interviewing, video, recording and conversation in community. The technique for analyzing the data is descriptive qualitative research based on Wardaugh’s. The result of this reserach was kinds, factors and function in Pesisir Barus Community. The most dominant kinds the terns of address are used by pesisir barus community is RT (62 times), the most dominant rarely used by pesisir barus community is KT (56 times), PN (16 times), FN (11 times), and MT (2 times), IT (4 times) is seldom used by Pesisir Barus Community. There are four kinds factors and function of the terns of address in Pesisir Barus Community can be divided as G (Gender), A (Age), FR (Family Relationship). R (Respect). With the total factors of address terms used by Pesisir Barus Community was analysis G (27 times), A (28 times), FR (36 times), R (60 times).