The Compensation Strategies For The Loss Nodi Of Social Address Terms In Modern Chinese

Some address terms have lost in modern Chinese, which made it difficult to call some person such as a female teacher's husband. In this essay, we survey a few nodi of the social address terms used by civilians of Guangzhou by means of spot check. We take both quantificational and qualitative analysis, both questionnaire and interview, both language analysis and society analysis. Some conclusion is derived on the features and compensation strategy of losing as following:1. It is common to use teacher as a address tem for a female teacher's husband and the term choosing strategy is different due to gender.2. None address term and Mr. is the most two common manner to call a higher-up's husband.3. Usually take not social address term but relative address term to call a higher-up's wife. The solidarity is more important than power in address term choosing.4. To call a friend's husband or boyfriend who is unfamiliar, male prefer using none address term more than relative address term, contrast with female.5. It is most common to call a friend's wife or girlfriend with relative address term and social address term is often used frequently. None address term is rarely used.6. None address term is the most important compensation strategy for a stranger and gender address term take the second place. In general address terms traditionl ones is less common than foreign ones. Moreover, there is an infiltration from relative address term to non-relative address term and so on.