Comparatives Study of Kinship Terms in Thai, Vietnamese and Indonesian Language

Norma Pawestri

2018

Abstract

In social interaction, addressing someone is crucial as it show several social functions such as: recognition of the social identity, the social position, the role of the addressee and of the interrelations between the addresser and the addressee. A linguistic area that pays attention a lot in these social functions is “addressing terms”. In order to use addressing terms, some factors such as the social status or rank of the other, sex, age, family relationship, occupational hierarchy, transactional status, race or degree of intimacy are to be considered. What to be done in this research were comparing the addressing terms specifically Kinship terms, in Thai, Vietnamese and Indonesian. The data of kinship terms words were obtained from a native speaker of each language. Each terms used in the 3 main areas of kinship terms namely main family kinship terms, extended family kinship terms, marital relations or in law kinship terms were compared. By using descriptive qualitative method, the phenomena of differences between kinship terms among the languages is later to be explained. It was found that generally speaking, Thai and Vietnamese society seem to be more hierarchical than Indonesia. In Thailand and Vietnam, family members have different names depending on their gender, seniority, age or maternal or paternal side, and even relationship to the male line. There are however many similarities and differences between these languages in some aspects such as: age and seniority, paternal and maternal side, matrimony status, gender and politeness.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Pawestri N. (2018). Comparatives Study of Kinship Terms in Thai, Vietnamese and Indonesian Language. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC, ISBN 978-989-758-515-9, pages 211-215. DOI: 10.5220/0010005200002917

in Bibtex Style

@conference{binus-jic18,
author={Norma Pawestri},
title={Comparatives Study of Kinship Terms in Thai, Vietnamese and Indonesian Language},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,},
year={2018},
pages={211-215},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010005200002917},
isbn={978-989-758-515-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,
TI - Comparatives Study of Kinship Terms in Thai, Vietnamese and Indonesian Language
SN - 978-989-758-515-9
AU - Pawestri N.
PY - 2018
SP - 211
EP - 215
DO - 10.5220/0010005200002917