چكيده فارسي :
Forms of address can be defined as the words speakers use to designate the persons they are talking to while they are talking to them (Fasold, 1990:1f). The study of forms of address of various languages is not new; many studies are available on this topic in many languages. Most of these languages differentiate between the familiar forms and the formal ones. For example, in French tu / vous and in Arabic انتَ / انتم respectively. Even in languages that do not have the tu / vous distinction there is the use of address terms. English once had the thou / you distinction and still offers a range of address terms ranging from Title alone (Sir, Your Majesty, Madam, Constable) through Title + last name (Mr. Jones, Dr. Smith, Lord Clard, Miss Jones, Mrs. Jones) to first name to multiple names (including Nicknames). The conditions for choosing vary socially (Spolsky, 1998:21f).
