Abstract:
This study aimed to investigate the effects of economic status and level of education on the choice of address terms by Iranian couples in Shahrekord, Iran. To this end, 50 couples were selected, based on their educational and economic statuses, and were studied in terms of their choice of address terms. A discourse completion task was used as the data elicitation technique and Chi-square was conducted to analyze the data. The results of this study unveiled the patterns of realizations of terms of address among the couples in different situations. It was found that level of education (though not economic status) was an important factor in the choice of address terms among couples. Unsurprisingly, the more educated the participants, the more formal address terms they used. Indeed, level of education brought about significant differences among the low, mid, and high level of education couples in the address termed they chose to use. It was also divulged that there was no significant difference in using terms of address for couples with low and high economic status.
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"The Impacts of Level of Education and Economic Status on the Choice of Address Terms by Young Couples SajadShafiee* Department of English, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran shafiee.
com Abstract This study aimed to investigate the effects of economic status and level of education on the choice of address terms by Iranian couples in Shahrekord, Iran.
The current study, thus, was set up to find out the effects of level of education and economic status on the choice of address terms by young Iranian couples.
Whether the difference between the frequencies of address terms by these two groups of couples was statistically significant or not had to be determined by the results of the Chi-square test: This test indicated no significant association between the economic status and the choice of address terms since the value under Sig.
Frequencies of Different Types of Address Terms by High & Low Economic Status Couples Address Terms رجوع شود به تصویر صفحه Note: Title (T), First Name (FN), Last Name (LN), Nickname (NN), and Terms of Endearment (ToE) Table 2.
Chi-Square Results for Comparing Address Terms by High & Low Economic Status Couples رجوع شود به تصویر صفحه Table 3.
To conclude, as the findings of present study indicate, the choice of linguistic forms is determined by the level of education of couples, but economic status is the factor which cannot affect the choice of address terms."