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Gender Differences in Short Stories by Male and Female Writers

Author: PengXiaoLing
Tutor: ZhangYingLin
School: Central China Normal University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Gender language Gender differences Chinese written discourse Choice of Topics Language level Narratology Narrative Feature of
CLC: I106.4
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2006
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Abstract


Language is the main way for people to understand themselves and the outside world. Discourse is the use of language, so the choice of mode of discourse reflects the different aspects of the close relationship between the people and the language. Gender, language, gender attributes. Gender language embodies a deep understanding of people hide behind the language of gender and complex cognitive. In everyday life, because people do not realize that the gender language differences as well as differences in the reasons behind, leading to mutual misunderstanding and even conflict, so understanding the differences in the language of gender and its exchange difference is of great significance. Since the 1860s, gender differences become a hot topic in the field of linguistics. In fact, the study of gender language in the Western countries can be traced back to the seventeenth century. People as early as then observed differences in the male terminology and female terms in the expression, but did not cause much concern, the results of the gender language study did not come out. The beginning of the twentieth century, language and gender issues really attracted the attention of scholars. However, this period also no systematic analysis of the linguistic phenomenon only scattered discussion or personal observation and experience. The mid-1960s, the development of social language of blood and growth of research methods for the study of gender language, scholars quantitative analysis method is applied to study the differences in the language of men and women a more detailed description of that The female language more conservative nature. At the same time, the development of the women's liberation movement fueled gender language study in this period. '70s And '80s of the nineteenth century, a number of well-known linguist and this research a step forward, they traced the social roots of the language of gender differences. Some of them think that the differences in gender language has become a language discrimination, while some scholars believe that men and women terminology exists only in nuances. From the late eighties and throughout the nineties, the focus of the study is mostly concentrated in terms of formal men and women, a large number of scholars sociolinguistics, pragmatic theories, principles and methods of the school, and my heart linguistics, philosophy, and other disciplines to explore men and women terms differences manifestations. Language academic research on gender language in the country from the late seventies and early eighties began, started late, in addition to the study of language variation gender language differences little monograph is not much, mainly focused on the introduction of the culture of English gender analysis and comparison and studies. During this period, domestic linguist noted that the Western feminist movement language, have written the article describes the phenomenon of gender language in the form. But most spoken language as their corpus of gender language mainly for stylistic description above studies, and the study of English, very little written language and Chinese have been great to ignore. It was mainly reflected in the short stories, the gender differences between men and women start to study the body written in the Chinese context

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