THE POWERFUL AND THE POWERLESS: ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE CHINESE POLITE DENIGRATING/ELEVATING AD...

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" THE POWERFUL AND THE POWERLESS: ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE CHINESE POLITE DENIGRATING/ELEVATING ADDRESSING TERMINOLOGY "
Dániel Zoltán Kádár

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	811574
Doc. No	:	LA99248
Main Entry	:	Dániel Zoltán Kádár
Title & Author	:	THE POWERFUL AND THE POWERLESS: ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE CHINESE POLITE DENIGRATING/ELEVATING ADDRESSING TERMINOLOGY [Article]\ Dániel Zoltán Kádár
Title of Periodical	:	Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Date	:	2005
Volume/ Issue Number	:	58-4
Page No	:	421--443
Abstract	:	The aim of this paper is to discuss the pre-modern social use of elevating/denigrating addressing terms, i.e., how the whole vocabulary of denigrating/elevating addressing terms can be categorised. The question is how many significant social groups existed in pre-modern China which had their own self-denigrating terminology as speakers, and other-elevating-terminology as addressees. Although the social distribution of non-familiar elevating/denigrating addressing terms seems to be chaotic, I shall try to prove that a certain socio-pragmatic system, a system of social power, of these terms exists, according to which the elevating/denigrating addressing vocabulary can be classified. This classification will also help understand the systematic use of these terms.