List of tables
Table 2.1
Categories of nominal address in English
25
Table 3.1
Dyads in the Jamaican and Trinidadian literary works classified according to the characters’ sex, age, and relationship
43
Table 3.2
Use of categories of nominal address across dyads
45
Table 3.3
Use of categories of nominal address across dyads (classified according to the speakers’ and the addressees’ sex)
48
Table 3.4
Use of categories of nominal address across dyads (classified according to the speakers’ and the addressees’ age)
55
Table 3.5
Use of categories of nominal address across dyads in the Jamaican corpus (classified according to the relationship between speaker and addressee)
61
Table 3.6
Use of categories of nominal address across dyads in the Trinidadian corpus (classified according to the relationship between speaker and addressee)
62
Table 4.1
Classification of occupations according to ISCO-08
87
Table 4.2
Classification of informants according to their social class
87
Table 4.3
Distribution of informants across social categories
93
Table 4.4
Demographic information about Jamaican interviewees
96
Table 4.5
Demographic information about Trinidadian interviewees
96
Table A.1
List of Jamaican and Trinidadian writers (including their number of works) selected for the present corpus study
233
Table A.2
Jamaican literary works selected for the present corpus study
234
Table A.3
Trinidadian literary works selected for the present corpus study
235