eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2018-04-28 6 5 499 504 10.12691/education-6-5-21 EDUCATION20186521 article Nguyen Thi Hong Chuyen hongchuyennnvn.tn@gmail.com 1 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Udon Thani Rajabhat University, Thailand The article uses vocative and communicative theories to point out the vocative of Uncle Ho's soldiers in the anti-French period. The basis for us to determine the forms of address of the soldiers is: Military Command, the forms of address of the Vietnamese and some modern literary works. The results show that in communication, Uncle Ho's soldiers used 11/13 of address forms and corresponding to different communication situations, vocative of Uncle Ho's soldiers changed flexibly. However, the forms of address: by personal pronouns and by titles used in the vocative pair of: 'Tôi' - 'đồng chí' ("I" - "Comrade") appears with very high frequency. Through analyzing the vocative forms and the vocative pairs, we initially find: The communication of Uncle Ho's soldiers is both legal and emotional, both modern and traditional, both formal and informal. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/6/5/21/education-6-5-21.pdf vocative uncle Ho's soldiers anti-French period and communicative roles