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标题：The Impacts of Level of Education and Economic Status on the Choice of Address Terms by Young Couples
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作者：Sajad Shafiee ; Amir Sabzevari ; Nooshafarin Motallebi 等
期刊名称：Research in English Language Pedagogy
印刷版ISSN：2588-3259
电子版ISSN：2538-4244
出版年度：2015
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：16-22
语种：English
出版社：Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch
摘要：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.