This essay compares today s address terms to women to that in history,discussing the relationship between the variation of address terms to women and women s social status.

Interpersonal functions and translating strategies of address forms;

An Analysis of Pragmatic Failures in the Use of English Address Forms by EFL Chinese Learners;

On Iconicity of Address Forms from the Sociolinguistic Perspective;

Emotive Approach to the Metaphorical Use of Address Forms;

Address forms are first introduced in this paper and it is made clear that the choice of address forms is constrained by power and solidarity.

The address terms in this novel not only reflect the relationships between people but also indicate the social position and the status of the participants.

As a thermometer in adjusting interpersonal relation- ships, address terms demonstrate their creativity and flexibility.

"Showing respect"and"showing closeness"are two important pragmatic maxims that guide the use of address terms.

The paper analyzes the speech acts performed by the shift of person deixis and vocatives by linking the pragmatic theory of speech acts.

Being studied from sociolinguistic perspective, vocatives in different languages mirror different social phenomena, which indicates that language is influenced by such external factors as social system, interpersonal relationships, communicative occasions, addresser s attitudes and so on.

This paper points out that vocatives assume three major social deictic functions:identity function,interpersonal deictic function and emotional deictic function.