“小姐”一词的语言学解读

Decoding “Xiajie” from Linguistic Angle

“小姐”一词在不同的历史时期的意义变化反映了社会生活及人们观念的变迁。现在,“小姐”这一语音形式,其用作对年轻女性的尊称及用于指三陪女的用法并存,影响了人们的语言使用,并在更深层次上影响了人们对女性群体的划分标准。“小姐”用于指三陪女使其成为一个新的社会禁忌语。从理论上说。

The different meanings of xiaojie in different historical periods reflect the change of social life and idea. There are two meanings of xiaojie in daily life now: respectul form of address to young ladies and a substitute name of prostitutes. This inevitably has impaction the use of language the standard for differentiating different types of women. The word xiaojie becomes a new taboo when used as a substitute for prostitute. In theory,the process of word being used as new taboo will go on.