Appellations Gender Differences In Linguistic Research

The study of address gender is a virgin land in the Chinese academia. The gender languange research has been a hotspot, many scholars have made a plenty of studies to prove the gender difference in languange and explain the cause of the differnce. Actually, as a part of vocabulary , address system also reflects the gender difference.Address system and gender are closed together. The transition of address could reflect the social culture how to influence both sexes, the adrress meaning hues could reflect the social tendentious attitudes to both sexes. The gender also could restrict the change of address system.The paper tries to inject the theories and methods of sociolinguistics into the study of adress gender difference, to examine how the gender differnces are displayed in the address system from the point of "Man and Society". The paper also tries to explore the new field of gender language research, to enrich the contents of the study, and also to explore the methods, to reveal the gender features of the address system and how the both sexes to use the address.The research of sociolinguistics gender address has great value.At first, it would help us to recognize the common law of languange system and to broaden our eyesight. It also can explain the inner change of languange and the outer factors how to influce the languangeconstruction. It can reveal the relationship of the social factors and languange variation.Secondly, the study of address could benift the cross-culture communication and the development of the Chinese education.Thirdly, the research could standardize some controversial languange issues, and help man and woman to connect and understand each other.Faced the complicated address phenomena, the author introduces the present situations of gender languange and address research, and also expands on the gender features of the kin address and the social address.The most important discrimination in the Chinese kin address system are the difference of the consanguinity and the relations by marriage, the address number of both are not reciprocally and sexism. Man and woman have different characteristics in the family name and given name.To comprehend the youth how to use the common spoken Chinese address and their attitudes to it, the author makes a small scope questionnaire. The questionnaire includes two aspects: how to use the social address and the attitudes to it. The paper studies address system from the gender point of view, so the emphasis of the quesionnaire is the both sexes how to address man and woman.In the end, the author makes a individual case to explore how the power and solidarity thory restrict the address in .The greatest innowation of the paper is the study point which is the gender contrast point of view. The study would broaden the research field of gender languange.The paper also pays attention to the languange discrimination against man, the author hopes more reseachers to follow with interest in this field.At the present day, most languange research in china seldom use expermental methods, they just list some examples or statistics. The paper uses sociolinguistics methods such as interview, observation, experment, quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis to acquire more scientifically conclusions .