Relationship terms in the function of appeal in Japanese

The article is devoted to the study of the terms of kinship in the function of addressing in Japanese, which provides a description of the terms of kinship and their functioning as forms of address in modern literary Japanese; as well as this research’s purpose is to investigate functional shifts in the system of forms of circulation of the Japanese language. The aim of this study is to describe and analyze the kinship terms as the address forms. A random sampling method has been used to select the material for the study. The article concludes that there is no sign of Equal in intra-family relationships in Japanese speech culture, as all family members are either Superior or Inferior in relation to each other.