AN INVESTIGATION INTO HOW TO USE NOUNS EXPRESSING POSITIONS AND CAREERS IN VOCATIVE OF THAI LOCAL LANGUAGE

Abstract

 “Vocative” is simply understood as justifying oneself (calling oneself) and his interlocutor  in  order  to  establish  the  relationship  among  communication  partners  and  to express their attitudes and feelings. In Thai local language, nouns expressing positions and careers as vocative words take a limited  amount,  including:  chảu,  chảu  mương,  à  nha  and  poong.  In  communicative activities, several nouns expressing careers as vocative words in Vietnamese have been and will  be  used  as  borrowings  in  Thai  local  language.  This  borrowing  helps  to  enrich  the vocative words in Thai local  language in particular and its lexical system in general.