What is it about?
A common Chinese addressing practice is to address non-kin people with kinship terms, a phenomenon sometimes described as ‘kinship term generalization’. This study adopts the socio-pragmatic perspective to examine the phenomenon among Chinese graduate students.
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Why is it important?
Based on the analysis of the data collected, it seeks to argue that Chinese graduate students’ varying use of GKTs in academic settings is a pragmatic strategy, characterized by the family-centered cultural values of the Chinese society.
Perspectives
It is hoped that the present study at the intersection between pragmatics and sociolinguistics may enrich the study of address forms in general, and in particular of Chinese kinship term generalization.
Juanjuan Ren
Anhui University
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This page is a summary of: Kinship term generalization as a cultural pragmatic strategy among Chinese graduate students, Pragmatics and Society, December 2019, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/ps.18009.ren.
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