• Saman Ebadi

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• Vida Mozafari

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The use of terms of address is usually influenced by factors such as ''age, sex,
occupation, ideology, political and social position of the interlocutors'' (Asadpour et.al. 2012).
In the recent decades address terms in different languages have been studied from different
perspectives. In line with those studies this article focuses on identifying different types of
addressing terms that Jaf interlocutors may use in different contexts. Jafi is a dialect of Sorani
Kurdish spoken in some parts of Kermanshah province including the towns of Javanroud,
Ravansar and some villages around Sarpole Zahab and Paveh. Personal names, general and
occupation titles, kinship related terms, religious oriented expressions, honorifics, terms of
intimacy, personal pronouns, descriptive phrases and employing greetings or attention getters
to avoid address terms are discussed. Emphasis is on the discussion of the type of terms of
address that Jaf people in Kermanshah utilize in the contexts in which they are engaged. The
circumstances under which they are created are considered. It is argued in this article that the
speaker and the addressee's social relationship, and the context of the communicative event are
the main factors determining the choice of address variants. The choices are considered as
reflection of very broad classes of social meaning. The findings of this study could be used in
teaching Jafi, pragmatics and translation focusing on address terms

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