HOW MOTHERS AND FATHERS ADDRESS THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS IN RUSSIAN AND VICE VERSA: A QUANTITATIVE STUDY

Alexander Piperski (egridneva@hse.ru), Ekaterina Aplonova (aplooon@gmail.com), Maria Grabovskaya (magrabovskaya@gmail.com), Ekaterina Gridneva (egridneva@hse.ru), Elizaveta Ivtushok (liza@nplus1.ru), Viktoria Naumova (vanaumova.hse@gmail.com), Anastasia Orlenko (anastas.orlenko@gmail.com) and Diana Senkina (di.senkina@yandex.ru)
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Alexander Piperski: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Ekaterina Aplonova: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Maria Grabovskaya: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Ekaterina Gridneva: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Elizaveta Ivtushok: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Viktoria Naumova: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Anastasia Orlenko: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Diana Senkina: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2018
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Published in WP BRP Series: Linguistics / LNG, December 2018, pages 1-25

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