| Serving as an essential component in the system of address terms, the type of post and rank terms takes an important part in speech communication. But few treatises about this type can be found in the present academic circles. It is necessary and capable to research the characters of the address terms of post and rank. When it comes to the allied studies in the field of teaching Chinese to foreigners, we can't get enough information either. So, if we give the address terms of post and rank an intensive study, it can surely contribute to the address terms teaching in teaching Chinese to foreigners.By means of the modern computer technology, we built a corpus of the address terms of post and rank. We examined the structure types of the addresses terms in modern Chinese with the qualitative and quantitative analysis methods. And on the base of the analysis of the types of address terms from various angles, such as pragmatics, sociolinguistics, cultural linguistics and contrastive linguistics, we summarized some characters and principles of use about modern Chinese address terms of post and rank. Meanwhile, we investigated the usage condition of address terms of post and rank in the teaching materials of the teaching Chinese to foreigners, and put forward some problems and strategies.The entire thesis falls into seven chapters:The first chapter is an introduction. It mainly reviewed the research history and recent advances related to address terms, address terms of post and rank in Chinese and the field of teaching Chinese to foreigners. We also talked about the theories, methods, purposes and significances of our study.In the second chapter, we introduced the issues of establishing the address terms of post and rank corpus, including the definition of the relative terms, the source of the corpus, the purposes of the establishment of the corpus and the realization of it. We choose the address terms of post and rank on the basis of HSK word list (2001), and used the modern Chinese corpus of BLCU as our basic corpus of address terms of post and rank.In the third chapter, we examined and analyzed the structure types of address terms of post and rank on the basis of the corpus. Based on the research results in this field, we firstly divided the address terms of post and rank into two types: simple ones and compound ones. And then, we classified the former type into two subclasses (the basic address terms of post and rank and the address terms of post and rank that matches with other additional forms), and the latter one, four subclasses. Every subclasses can be divided in detail.In the fourth chapter, we analyzed the combining forms about the address terms of post and rank in details, and explored its regulation of combination, including the basic address terms of post and rank and its incidental component, the probability, the composite reliability and co-occurrence of order of combination with other types of address term and between themselves.In the fifth chapter, we analyzed the five characters of the address terms of post and rank: strict garment, sharp nationality, outstanding process characters, flexible variability and moderate virtual. We also discussed the principles that should be abide by: paying attention to the people's power, being polite, exemplifying the relationships and choosing decent contexts.In chapter six, we studied the address terms of post and rank from the aspect of teaching Chinese to foreigners. We found out problems from the teaching materials and offered the suggestions from the angles of paying attention to the teaching of address terms of post and rank, adjusting the content of courses and reinforcing the teaching methods.The seventh chapter is the conclusion of this thesis. It summarized the main content of the study and pointed out the weakness the problems that should be researched later in it. |
