Modern Chinese Kinship Terms Generalization Study

Chinese addresses is a mirror that reflects the traditional cultural custom of Chinese race,not only having the certain characteristics of semantic meaning, but also having some common pragmatic functions .Using the kinship terms to address those who do not have blood relations is an unique language phenomenon.By study on the extensive use of modern Chinese addresses of relations ,we discover some regulations , characters and forming reasons of this kind of addressing terms,and make a conclusion about it's pragmatic principles and pragmatic functions.This thesis is divided into three parts: The first part is overview of the research on addressing terms. The second part is some regulations , characters and forming reasons of the extensive use of modern Chinese addresses of relations. The third part is pragmatic study on the extensive use of modern Chinese addresses of relations.Among them, the second and the third part is the point that this text discuss.The first part: Giving a general view of historic and present conditions on study of address terms ,and giving the definition of Chinese address terms.I, In the ancient, the research on Chinese addresses was limited in releasing and testifying. The traditional linguistics also only pays attention to the analysis on the structure of language,neglecting semantic research of address system in the condition of social language .Along with the development of the social linguistics, the research break out the barrier of the traditional linguistics and structuralism linguistics, arousing the domestic and international scholars study address terms from more and more angles.II , Based on the achievements of other learners,we talk about several relations and give the definition of addressing terms from the angle of the function.III, Chinese addresses can be divided into two parts .We give a simple introduction about Chinese addresses of relations and Chinese addresses of socialstatus.The second part:We mainly study the characteristics, regulations and forming reasons of the extensive use of modern Chinese addresses of relations.lt can be divided into five parts:L We try to classify the extensive use of modern Chinese addresses of relations, then give the definition of the extensive use of modern Chinese addresses of relations and the extensive use of modern Chinese addresses of social status.IK We make a data analysis about < big dictionary of addresses>,and discover some characters and regulations of extensive use of Chinese addresses.UK Analysis on the changing forms of the extensive use of modern Chinese addresses.FV\ We take out some typical kinship terms as object and analyze it's applying conditions and regulations.V\ Forming reason of the history, actuality and the language itself about the extensive use of Chinese addresses of relations.The third part:We study the extensive use of Chinese addresses of relations mainly from pragmatic angles,including three aspects:K We find out several pragmatic principles about the extensive use of Chinese addresses of relations,such as Intimacy Principle,Age Principle,Status Principle and Politeness Principle.in this part,we give a specific explaination on some examples taken from several typical novels.IK We analyze the pragmatic functions of the extensive use of Chinese addresses of relations,including function of personal designation and function of social designation. We study what function the extensive use of Chinese addresses of relations can have when it is used to address speakers themselves > listeners and others.We also find that the extensive use of Chinese addresses of relations can express certain politeness > feelings > social relations ^ intercourse conditions and so on.IIL the extensive use of Chinese addresses of relations in Chinese teaching to foreigners.We ananlyze the different use of the extensive use of Chinese addresses of relations in different language.Through the statement to Theory of Schemata,we discover that proper schemata play a vital role in language acquisition.hi fine, the extensive use of Chinese addresses of relations in Chinese is not only a kind of special phrase phenomenon of language,but also a kind of pragmatic process which is dynamic. The research not only have some theoretical meaning, but also have large practical value, along with the social intercourse becoming more and more extensive, the research of the extensive use of Chinese addresses of relations in Chinese will go further.