Metaphorical and metonymic motivations behind Hungarian forms of address

Domonkosi, Ágnes (2018) Metaphorical and metonymic motivations behind Hungarian forms of address. In: Polsko-węgierskie Badania Hungarologiczne. Lengyel--magyar hungarológiai kutatások. Jagello University, Kraków, Lengyelország, pp. 129-141. ISBN 978-83-233-4517-6

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Abstract

Forms of address, i.e. linguistic markers of the addressee (nominal or pronominal forms as well as inflectional morphemes) are the most direct linguistic means available for indicating the relationship between discourse participants. Thus, they make a key contribution to the linguistic construal of social reality. This importance explains why all approaches highlighting the functions and social aspects of language have concerned themselves with the topic. In particular, the variety and functions of forms of address have been explored by sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis, pragmatics and cognitive linguistics. In the present paper, I focus on only one aspect of this highly complex phenomenon, namely the conceptual background (more specifically, metaphorical and metonymic motivations) behind the linguistic devices in question. The criteria of my analysis are supplied by functional cognitive semantics and pragmatics.

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