Culture exerts great influence on language, and language reflects essential characteristics of culture in turn. Address terms, as an inseparable component of language and the forthgoer in language communication, reveal cultural traits. Address terms in Chinese and English, which display striking dissimilarities, breed respectively in Chinese and Western cultures. A comparative study between address terms in Chinese and English is conducted in this paper, and the root cause of addressing dissimilarities—differences between Chinese and Western cultures is explored accordingly.

Pingping Wang, Aimin Nie. A Glimpse of Cultural Differences through Address Terms in Chinese and English. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2020) Vol. 3, Issue 11: 7-13. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2020.031102.

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