社会语言学--校园称谓语.doc

The Study of Address Forms on Campus 摘 要: 称谓语作为重要的社会语言学现象一直都是语言学家研究的重要课题。称谓语是人类言语交际中最为显著、最为实用的一部分。它不仅在很大程度上反映出交际双方的社会地位、亲疏关系，而且还反映一个语言群体的文化习俗。社会称谓系统是人际称谓系统的一个重要组成部分。它主要用来称呼家庭成员以外的社会成员。与亲属称谓相比,社会称谓具有不稳定性,易受到多种因素的影响而发生变化。本文选取大学生在校园里常用的社会称谓作为社会语言学研究的一个方面,重点分析了对大学生在校园里选择不同社会称谓形式产生影响的种种因素。 Abstract: As other important linguistic phenomenons, address forms, have always been the subject of sociolinguistic researchers. Address forms can be used to show the relationship between the addresser and addressee. Address forms have always been regarded as an important indicator of interpersonal relationship which can reflect customs and conventions of a speech community. Social appellation is one subfield of appellation system, which is used to address other people rather than own family members. This paper takes an interesting topic, which is address forms employed by college students in campus for sociolinguistic study. The aim of the author is to provide the analysis of sociolinguistic features of address forms employed among university students and reveals the cultural information conveyed through the use of them. Key words: college students, address forms, sociolinguistic analysis 1. Introduction Language and culture are intertwined with each other. On one hand, language is part of culture and therefore influenced by culture; on the other, it can reflect some of the characteristics of culture, and thus any phenomenon in relation to language, might represent some of the cultural features of a speech community. So we have been able to make a study of varieties of language, used by groups defined according to class, education, age, sex, and a number of other social parameters. The researches about the address forms can be dated back to the Greek time. At that time, address forms are a very important, because they are part of deixis for they indicate the relationship between the participants in interpersonal communication, show the relative social status of the addresser and add