Forms of Address in the Context of More Open Society. A Study of 20th Century Norwegian Dramas
The aim of this article is to take a closer look at certain changes in social communication in Norway, connected to forms of address, that is words and expressions one uses to address his or her conversation partner(s). Since dramatic texts seem to be the most adequate material for this sort of r...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium |
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| Online Access: | https://journal.tertium.edu.pl/index.php/JaK/article/view/84 |
| Summary: | The aim of this article is to take a closer look at certain changes in social communication in
Norway, connected to forms of address, that is words and expressions one uses to address his
or her conversation partner(s). Since dramatic texts seem to be the most adequate material for
this sort of research, because of the deictic expressions typical for spoken dialogue they contain
(among others: pronouns and proper nouns), the material this research is based upon comes
from selected dramatic texts written by such playwrights of the previous century as Henrik
Ibsen (Hedda Gabler), Jens Bjørneboe (Til lykke med dagen, Tilfellet Torgersen, Dongery),
Cecilie Løveid (Du, bli her!, Måkespisere, Vinteren revner) or Jon Fosse (Gitarmannen, Nokon
kjem til å komme, Dei døde hundane, Sa ka la). The analysed texts indicate significant changes
in the addressative system: removal of most of the communicational barriers from the language
(inequality regarding pronouns, titles, gender asymmetry and exaggerated emotionality),
which, on the one hand, makes communication easier, and, on the other hand, one can consider that such egalitarisation does not influence the social needs of a solitary man or his/her willingness to establish or maintain contact.
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| ISSN: | 2543-7844 2543-7844 |