Anredeformen in Deutschen und Türkischen märchen

Every living being has its own way of communication and so do the characters in (fairy) tales. They use specific forms of address to communicate with each other. The aim of this master thesis is to seek out the different forms of address used in German and Turkish tales among the characters. To determine their meanings from the perspective of contrastive linguistics, a certain amount of tales in both languages were analyzed. To limit the scope of the study, nominal and pronominal address terms were prioritized so that the verbal form of address was mentioned to a minimum extent. In order to reify the similarities and differences between the two languages from a contrastive point of view, the main part of the study consists of the analysis of the form and meaning of the nominal and pronominal terms of address. Therefore the comparison was made on the morphological and semantic level. The scope was extended by the pragmalinguistic view as necessary.