摘要

称谓语是专指人们用来相互称呼的名称，是人类社会语言文化的一种普遍现象。语言与文化共生、共存。受民族、宗教、历史以及社会结构等因素的影响，汉英称谓语具有一定共性,亦存在巨大的差异。本文从文化角度出发，将英汉称谓语分为亲属称谓和社交称谓，比较了它们的异同，分析了造成它们差异的原因，旨在更好地理解英汉不同的社会文化，促进中外文化交流。
   
关键词:文化；分析；称谓；亲属称谓；社交称谓

Abstract

Address terms refer specifically to the names that people use to call each other, which is a common phenomenon in human language culture. Language and culture are symbiotic and coexistent. Influenced by nations, religions, histories and social structures, the Chinese and English appellation systems have something in common but meanwhile have huge differences. Therefore, from the cultural perspective, this text divides them into relative appellation and social appellation and makes a comparison about their differences and similarities as well as analyzes the reasons in order to better understand the different social cultures and promote cross-cultural communication.

Keywords: culture; analyze; appellation; relative appellation; social appellation

1. Introduction
Since the foundation of People’s Republic of China and especially in the recent thirty years, earth-shaking changes have taken place in many areas including politics, economics, military and education in our country and as a result, news things, products and minds as well as ideas appear in our life. Of course, spontaneously, there are many new members in forms of address. Some of the address terms have been changed after being used for a while with the development of society and some have been kept until now. They affect the social communication of human beings and reflect the development of society change. And this situation is shared with the English appellation system. Moreover, under the background of globalization, there is a frequent communication between Chinese and western culture and with no doubt appellation is an essential part. Therefore in this text, the author will make a comparison between these two appellation systems and explain their differences in a cultural perspective.