Analysis of Chinese Kinship Terms from the Perspective of Social Linguistics开题报告

1. 研究目的与意义

This paper aims to reveal Chinese relatives appellation generalization phenomenon of overall pattern, and discusses the potential social and linguistic factors influence on the phenomenon of generalization.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

The article adopted the method of combining the qualitative and quantitative analysis, by way of typical examples and statistics showed the common Chinese relatives appellation general pattern and characteristics of generalization phenomenon. In addition, the author through the observation records the natural situation in daily life the kin terms generalization phenomenon, popular used nowadays relatives appellation terms, a total of 40 cases as the language material for research integration, in order to enhance the reliability and validity of this study. The author has carried on the descriptive analysis, to all the data according to the data analysis methods and form, to the discussion of the results.

3. 国内外研究现状

Through the study found that the number of kin terms in Chinese is various, and relatives appellation generalization phenomenon is relatively common. Paper further analyzes the overall pattern of the main language and social reasons, and stated the kin terms from the Angle of social linguistics generalization of social. This study also found that the Chinese relatives appellation words to further expand for generalization, the generalization relatives appellation from blood relatives appellation words expanded to in-laws relatives appellation words, although the frequency is still very low. In addition, the use of kin terms generalization follow certain principles: generational principle; Close principle; The principle of occasions; Principle of social factors; From the principles of son said. Under the guidance of these principles, relatives appellation generalization phenomenon is more complex and changeful, derived based on the use of different factors, one of the most characteristic is the relative appellation of manipulation and relatives appellation words. Finally, the research discusses the different social factors, such as age, gender, social class and social distance, affect relatives appellation generalization.

4. 计划与进度安排

In order to get a more representative sample, in this paper, using the method of social linguistics research, corpus collected from the current popular six''s TV series, involved from different age groups, different gender, different social classes and social distance of 947 cases of corpora. The article adopted the method of combining the qualitative and quantitative analysis, by way of typical examples and statistics showed the common Chinese relatives appellation general pattern and characteristics of generalization phenomenon. In addition, the author through the observation records the natural situation in daily life the kin terms generalization phenomenon, popular used nowadays relatives appellation terms, a total of 40 cases as the language material for research integration, in order to enhance the reliability and validity of this study. The author has carried on the descriptive analysis, to all the data according to the data analysis methods and form, to the discussion of the results.

5. 参考文献

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