当代中国爱称的使用现况及社会文化因素

The Using of Hypocorism in China and its Social Implication

In recent years, with the development of society, social structure, interpersonal relationships, social ethics and people's value have all undergone changes, which has, as a consequence, enriched people's terms of address. Hypocorisms are usually used to express love and endearment, and extensively used in daily communications. This paper collects and organizes different hypocoristic terms that are used in contemporary Chinese society and analyzes their scenarios and rules of use from socio linguistics' perspective to identify people's using preference. Based on this, it further explores how hypocorism reflect and generate social implication in the context of social and cultural constraints, moreover makes forecast about their evolution. Finally, this paper predicts the development trend of nicknames, and believes that the referential function of Hypocorism in the future will be weaker than communication. The constraint of the choice of symmetry in the power relationship is also relatively weak. Relatives' salutation will continue to be generalized, thus filling the lack of Chinese general names in a personalized and diversified form.

近年来，随着社会发展变化，社会结构、人际关系、社会伦理观念及人们的价值观都在发生改变，这也促使人们在使用爱称时表现形式更加丰富。近些年爱称的使用对象和范围逐渐扩大，过去只当作名称用的词语很多也开始进入到爱称的体系中来。因此，本文希望从社会语言学角度，对当代中国社会正在使用的爱称的表现形式进行归纳和整理，通过分析其使用情况找出人们使用爱称的一种倾向性结论。本文以现代汉语普通话中使用的爱称表达为主要研究对象，同时利用北京语言大学语料库中心 北京语言大学语料库中心(BLCU Corpus Center）,简称BCC。http://www.blcu.edu.cn（以下简称BCC）的相关语料搜集例句，以便对爱称的表现形式和使用情况进行整理和归纳。比起对爱称表现形式进行穷尽式的描写，本文更加关注的是通过分析当代社会人们是如何创造性地利用爱称来完善言语交际以及社会认同，并探讨影响爱称生成的制约因素及其社会意义。