The subject of the article is a contrastive analysis of pronominal and nominal forms of address in Polish and Spanish. In the case of the first class of addressative forms, the author focuses his attention on functional differences that are conditioned, among other things, by a slightly different sociopragmatic conceptualization of proximity and distance in both languages (hence, the symmetry of T/T relation dominant in Spanish is juxtaposed with the formal V/V symmetry typical of Polish). As far as nominal addressative forms are concerned, the updating of professional and academic titles characteristic of the Polish-speaking community is emphasized; the Spanish nominal addressative system is, in its turn, characterized as having the hallmarks of exclamatory-appealing style.
The main issues deal with in the present paper are greeting and farewell formulas analysed in terms of relationemes, that is specific exponents of interpersonal relationships. Taking the point of view of interactional linguistics, we try to show that the repertoire of this kind of forms is much wider than it is normally assumed and their relational character makes them a class very close to honorifics.
The subject of the article is emotivity examined as a sociopragmatic convention. The analysis was carried out after differentiating between the so-called emotive and emotional communication. The former type of communication is understood as an interactional strategic action connected with activating particular communicative mechanisms based on the pragmatic rules of solidarity, closeness and affiliation, whose scope and meaning for interpersonal relations may differ in particular speech communities. The latter of the two communicative types mentioned above is in turn connected with the exteriorization of affective states which bear no signs of interactional strategic action. The work suggests that emotivity be discussed in terms of a certain routine attribute interaction, and not only as an emotional charge of an utterance.
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