THE TERM OF ADDRESS AND ITS FUNCTIONS FROM LINGUISTIC POINT OF VIEW

Abstract

In the article the works of modern scientists dedicated to address and its aspects are characterized. The scientists studied forms of address from grammar view, as elements of discourse as well as communicative pragmatic potential of address, pragmalinguistic aspects, means of expressing, spheres of functioning, semantic and syntactical characteristics, pragmatic and semantic area. Different approaches acknowledge that address is a multifunctional communicative category. Address is a specific element of each language. Different conceptual interpretations of address are shown. Various definitions of this term demonstrate that address is a specific syntactic form because it has double nature – not only linguistic but also social. Forms of address are markers of social evolution, they depend on socio-economic and political changes (including ideological). There is no general agreement in the question of dominant and alternative address functions because its forms have difficult syntactic and linguo-semantic nature. The main functions of address are affective, distinctive, emotional, function of orientation, phatic and metalingual.