A Study of Address Terms in the Dialogue - Based Gilaki Poems of Sheevan Foumani

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the address terms in Gilaki poetries of Sheevan Foumani, according to the dialogue-based approach, as the main pillar of a structure that is based on the context, situation, sex, class, age, and the social position of individuals and manifestated in various forms like pronouns, kinship nicknames, nominal groups and descriptive expressions. These descriptive expressions include religious, friendly, respectful, metaphorical, euphemistic, sarcastic, ironic and insulting address terms, taboo and offensive words, and have created various tones. Sheevan Foumani depiction of lush spaces of Guilan incorporating with various tones in poetries is regarded as one of the factors of diversity and mobility. Methodologically, the current research is based on theories of sociolinguists like Brown, Wardaugh and Parkinson, and it has been designed in accordance with the discourse analysis approach in the dialogue - based Gilaki poems of the poet. Also, results of the current research indicate that the use of address terms in dialogue poems within the“recommendatory, admonitory and threatening tones” are the most frequent ones, then the “satirical and ridiculing tones” and “slanderous and insulting  tones” are more frequent, and finally “the tone of “astonishment”, as the least frequent one.