A Comparative Study Of Forms Of Address In Modern Chinese And Korean

The address is the languages relative to manner of speaking to another individual. It i s one of the best typical language tools to reflect the social relationships between speakers and listeners. Base on the address used between two peoples, we can judge the relationships between them, such as nodding acquaintance, colleague, superior and subordinate.The address could be divided into cognate address and social address. The cognate address in Chinese and Korean is further divided into patrillineal cognate address, matrilineal cognate address, matrimonial cognate address; while the social address in Chinese and Korean is further divided into nomenclatural social address, position/career social address, the second personal pronoun social address, substitute social address, general social address, analogous cognate social address, zeroth social address. Both China and South Korea belong to the sphere of Chinese culture, which leads to the similarity between the Chinese and Korea address. On the other side, although they are both included in the sphere of Chinese culture, plenty of social and cultural differences has also existed between these two countries with the development of the society. As a result, the Chinese and Korean address also express lots of differences.Furthermore, compared with the address from any other language, the Korean address shows obvious individual characteristics. It displays more complicated characters in the actual utility than the Chinese address. The address used in the areas of principle of ours, honorific and conjunct change, dead zone in the address, and network address are the best examples to reflect the characters of the Korean address in actual utility.