女人与男人说的话不一样真实是吗?
摘要
语言与性别的关系长期以来一直是社会语言学普遍关注的研究课题。随着20世纪60年代女性主义社会运动的发展和发展,西方学者和社会语言学家对语言的性别差异化使用做了大量研究。尽管在过去几十年中对语言中的性别差异进行了各种研究,但大多数研究者似乎忽视了沟通发生的背景的重要性。因此,性别和语言的研究似乎受到了这个问题的困扰:抽象或概括。更重要的是,如何解释男女之间的言语差异仍然是社会语言学家之间的争议问题。本论文打算做的是对英语中男女语言差异进行情境化研究,探讨语言差异的起源,探讨研究的意义或实际意义。通过分析和讨论,作者提供了一些关于研究重要性的考虑因素。一方面,通过更好地理解不同的会话模式,可以避免男女之间的交际问题。另一方面,男人和女人可以通过相互学习获益良多。最后作者指出,本研究是代表语言中性别差异研究新方向的尝试之一,希望本研究可以为性别差异语言研究的研究带来一些新的见解。
关键词:性别,言语差异,公共语境,会话分析
1.引言
语言是社会行为最有力的象征之
一。在通过语言进行的正常信息传递中,我们使用语言发送关于我们是谁,我们来自哪里以及与谁联系的重要社交信息。我们可以通过简单地根据个人的语言,口音,或者在某些情况下甚至是单个单词的选择来判断一个人的背景,性格和意图,这是多么令人震惊。
Is It Really True That Women Speak Differently From Men?
Abstract
The relationship between language and gender has long been the research topic of general interest in sociolinguistics. With the growth and the development of the feminist social movement in the 1960s, western scholars and sociolinguists have done a lot of researches on the gender-differentiated use of language. Despite the various kinds of researches concerning gender differences in language in the past few decades, most researchers seem to neglect the importance of the context in which communications take place. As a result, the studies of gender and language seem to suffer from the problem: abstraction or generalization. What's more, how to explain speech differences between men and women still remains a question in dispute among sociolinguists. What the present dissertation intends to do is to carry out a contextualized research of speech differences between men and women in the English language, to explore the origins of the speech differences and to discuss the significance or practical implications of the study. With the analysis and discussions, the author offers some considerations with regard to the significance of the study. On the one hand, the communicative problems between men and women can be avoided with better understandings of the different conversational patterns. On the other hand, men and women can benefit a lot from learning from each other. Finally the author points out that the present study is one of the attempts to represent the new direction of gender difference studies in language, hoping that the present study may bring some new insight in the study of gender difference language studies. Key words: gender, speech differences, public contexts, conversational analysis
1. Introduction
Language is one of the most powerful symbols of social behavior. In the normal transfer of information through language, we use language to send vital social messages about who we are, where we come from, and who we associate with. It is often shocking to realize how extensively we may judge a person's background, character, and intentions based simply upon the person's language, accent, or, in some instances, even the choice of a single word.