A study of address terms in khoy variety of Azeri Turkish

To know how people start their conversation and address each other is important in  studying social relation. In this research address in Azeri Turkish language Khoy spoken variety is studied. Research study is of content analysis. And data are collected by field study of 225 Khoy native speaker. The analysis of data showed that there are eight types of address forms in khoy dialect, which are first name, last name, titles, and family relationship terms, pet names, religious terms, occupational terms and reversed terms.  These address terms have three functions: showing intimacy, power distance and resoect. Also data analysis showed that age, education, job hieratchy, social ranking and family relatiopnshipare effective on sekectiong address terms.  Statistics shows that after first name, title is the most frequent address terms in Khoy variety of Azeri Turkish. Relegious terms have the most frequency among strange people which shos that reliogous affairs are important for Khoy people.