197
(7.20 TC)
How you doin
Paddy
?
Both of these vocatives are unnecessary given the face-to-face nature of the majority
of family talk. Relational vocatives, unlike mitigating or topic management
vocatives, have no apparent transactional function. Therefore, given that they occur
around speech acts such as apologies or compliments, they function to heighten the
sense of intimacy between conversational participants.
Topic management
The extract below shows the presence of a vocative at a topic change:
Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: