Greek forms of address

From Herodotus to Lucian 1. Introduction: Some background to sociolinguistic work and address; Address and its analysis; Previous work on greek addresses; The scope of this survey and the nature of the data 2. Sociolonguistics and written texts: Nature and validity of the spoken/written distinction; The question of conversational language; Problems of methodology; Our access to conversational greek 3. Forms of address: Names; Kinship and age terms; Titles; Terms of affection and esteem; Indefinite address; Terms of pity; Insutls; Ethnics; Occupational and group addresses; Generic terms for non-humans 4. Other aspects of address usage: Address freguency; Position of addresses within the sentence; The use of w with vocatives 5. Social distinctions: Distinctions of age; Distinctions of kinship; Distinctions of rank; Distincitons of gender 6. Conclusion: The greek address system; Variation and the language of our texts; Findings about greek social relations, Greek and sciolinguistics Appendix: Ancient authors and corpus of works surveyed; Listing of addresses