27.3335, Disc: Use of Fictive Kinship Terms in Romantic Contexts

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-3335. Fri Aug 19 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.3335, Disc: Use of Fictive Kinship Terms in Romantic Contexts

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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:07:04
From: Lucien Brown [lucien at uoregon.edu]
Subject: Use of Fictive Kinship Terms in Romantic Contexts

In Korean, the kinship term oppa 'older brother of a female' is frequently
used in romantic contexts, i.e. by a woman to address her boyfriend, etc. 

Although there is a large literature on the fictive or tropical use of kinship
terms, I could not find any discussion of similar phenomena in other
languages.

Are there any other languages or cultures in which it is commonplace for
kinship terms to be used in romantic contexts?

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

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