Address Term “Papochka”: Father, Lover, Friend

The article is devoted to the analysis of the functioning of the address term papochka (daddy) on the material of corpus data. The article discusses identified situations when the lexeme is used in its primary meaning – the address of a child to his father – as well as pragmatic shifts. The latter include addressing a father-in-law, a husband, and a man in a romantic context, as well as some other rare usages that do not constitute a separate dictionary meaning. The study showed that the functioning of the address term papochka is much broader than reflected in the dictionary definitions of the word papa (Dad). At the same time, the predominance of the primary meaning is preserved, and secondary uses are often associated with the transfer of status-role relations between a child and a male parent to other communication situations.