The Social Research In The Expressions Of Female Spouse

Female Spouse as an important constituent of kinship system, it is the important meansto maintain family relations and social relations. From the sociolinguistic perspective onlanguage variation, combine questionnaire investigation, description with induce to discussthe sociality of female spouse that is helpful to find out the characteristic ofdevelopment,evolution and use.At the same time there are certain enlightenment for thekinship system’s research.From ancient Chinese to modern Chinese, female spouse nameexperienced die, producing and using process. Analyse the reason of its evolve with socialfactors,we found that gender discrimination,social class differences and stylistic change arethe root cause of its transmutation. Through the questionnaire survey to analys the modernChinese female spouse name, summary the characteristics of the daily speaking. Afterstatistics, although there are so many female spouse forms, but very little for oralcommunicative.;respondents have different choice trend when they are in different ages,different gender and different cultural degree;the same respondents would have differentchoice when they call their own wives or other’s wives,when call wives face to face orbacking. The social factors such as age, class, gender and style affect the characteristic offemale spouse’s oral language. Combine with the sociolinguistics theory,we found at agefactors female spouse formed in two kinds of variation which are age-grading and chang inprogress; in class under the influence of factors female spouse formed in three kinds ofvariation which are indicator,marker and stereotype; in the gender factors female spouseconform to gender paradox and “covert prestige”;the influence of style come from speaker’sattitude,which is “convergence” or “divergence”,about audience.The selection of femalespouse isn’t effected by a factor,it is usually effected by a variety of social factors.