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- Title
Interpersonal Address at Punjabi Workplaces and Its Sociolinguistic Concerns with a Special Focus on Kinship Terms.
- Authors
Jeet, Ujjal
- Abstract
The present study aims to analyse the interpersonal address system at Punjabi workplaces, limited to the urban and organizational setups with a special focus on the use of kinship terms in purely professional contexts. The study is qualitative in nature and is based on the methods of observation and survey questionnaire. The data was collected from a sample of 210 respondents from the tertiary educational institutions of Punjab from the age groups of 19-39, selected with the help of the Simple Random Sampling method. The study concludes that there is a substantial amount of use of kinship terms at Punjabi workplaces and it does not always encode solidarity, rather kinship terms are also used to express either the lower status of the addressee or to overcome the ambiguity about the professional hierarchy of the addressee. The study was significantly delayed by Covid-19 pandemic, particularly at the data collection stages.
- Subjects
VOCATIVE case; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; KINSHIP; HONORIFIC (Grammar); ENGLISH language education; PRONOUNS (Grammar); TERMS of endearment; SPEECHES, addresses, etc.
- Publication
Language in India, 2023, Vol 23, Issue 9, p65
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article