Author(s)

Sun Guannan

Corresponding Author

Sun Guannan

Abstract

Address form is an important language phenomenon, and it has been the focus of social research for linguistics and modern Chinese. It also has close relationship with social culture, economic status, national culture and national attitude. Female address form is an even more special linguistic phenomenon, and the choice of female address form fully represents various social phenomena in human communication, such as "power", "status" and "equity relationship". From investigation on this special phenomenon, female status and values as well as the social relationship among women and between women and men can be understood. In this paper, a discussion on the characteristics and evolution of Chinese female address form is conducted in combination with traditional Chinese culture and customs.

Keywords

Chinese, Female, Address form, Characteristics, Evolution.