The Study On Asymmetry Phenomenon Of Social Appellations In Chinese

In the daily communication, we hardly avoid using the social appellations. Withthe development of society, the social appellations have been changing enormously.What’s more, when communicating with strangers, we still can’t avoid some awkwardsituations while using social appellations. According to social appellations collectedwhich based on the abundant language facts, this paper analyzes the asymmetricalphenomenon of social appellations and tries to dig the characteristics and causes. Itaims to help communicators avoid embarrassment when using them, which providessome valuable ideas for the research of social appellations.Through the research of asymmetry phenomena in modern social appellations,the author find that three situations exist in the social appellations: one-to-one,one-to-many, and vacancy. On the basis of previous studies, the paper start withasymmetry phenomena, using combination method of quantitative statistics andqualitative analysis, and that of inductive and deductive. With detailed analysis ofmodern social appellations, the author find that social appellations whose form andmeaning in symmetric distribution are only a small part, while other situations, suchas form in symmetrical distribution while meaning not, form in asymmetrydistribution while meaning not or both form and meaning in asymmetry distribution,are the larger one, namely, one-to-many and vacancy are those terms more often tooccur. After analyzing the asymmetry phenomena in modern social appellations, theauthor tried to dig out the reason why the asymmetry get its way, on the same timeprovides a reference for people in practical use, and also help us better understandsocial appellations.