＜第１回講演テーマ：チョーサーからシェイクスピアまでの呼びかけ語　(特にニ人称代名詞)について＞

講演者： Andreas Jucker教授（Chair of the Department of English, University of Zurich）

演題：“Terms of address from Chaucer to Shakespeare"

Abstract;

In French, German, Finnish and many other Indo-European languages, speakers distinguish between two different pronominal forms of address that can be used to address one single addressee, e.g. French tu, as the familiar and intimate pronoun and vous as the more formal, distant and polite pronoun. Present-day English only has one form, i.e. you. From about the thirteenth to the seventeenth century, English also made a distinction between thou and ye. However, the principles that governed the choice between these two pronouns were very different from those at work in the modern languages. In this presentation I shall illustrate the relevant principles in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and in Shakespeare's plays. This may not directly mirror the everyday usage of Chaucer's or Shakespeare's contemporaries, but it gives us a fascinating glimpse at how these two great English poets chose to depict the sociolinguistics and pragmatics of pronominal terms of address in their respective fictional worlds.