摘要
This article investigates the pragmatics of a recently emerged Chinese vocative,namely Jiemei in sentence-initial positions.I attempt to explore how and why such a vocative is widely employed by a female interlocutor to address another female in China.Through the analysis of the examples attained using BCC,a Chinese corpus containing conversations from a wide range of genres,this study suggests a various relational acts performed by Jiemei and its pragmatic functions.
