好还是了不起?漂亮、可爱还是可爱?MICASE中男性和女性形容词的使用

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S. Barczewska, A. Andreasen
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摘要

在拉科夫备受争议的出版物《语言与女人的地方》(1975)出版近半个世纪后,语言与性别之间的确切关系(如果有的话)仍然没有定论(参见Baker 2014:3,Cameron 2005)。所提出的关于男性和女性言语异同的理论往往侧重于可能导致男性或女性以某种方式行事或说话的社会和文化影响;例如,使用更多的形容词或更广泛的形容词。此外,他们经常使用轶事和个人资料作为他们的原始材料。因此,这些研究及其发表的论文经常受到研究人员直觉的影响(Baker 2014;Schmid 2003)。只有在过去的二十年里,才真正有可能分析大量的口语数据来测试这种直觉。尽管如此,即使有了计算机辅助数据分析的出现,结果也不明确。本研究的目的是分析密歇根大学英语口语语料库(MICASE)中形容词的男性和女性使用情况。我们比较了选定的基本形容词(好、坏、大、小、漂亮、丑陋、重要和不同)及其近同义词的使用,试图支持或质疑基于直觉的说法,即某些形容词更“女性化”或“男性化”,或者女性比男性使用更多种类的形容词。这篇论文希望对正在进行的关于性别差异和语言的讨论做出贡献。
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Good or marvelous? Pretty, cute or lovely? Male and female adjective use in MICASE
Nearly half a century after Lakoff ’s controversial publication Language and a Woman’s Place (1975), the verdict is still out as to the exact relationship (if any) between language and gender (cf. Baker 2014: 3, Cameron 2005). Th e proposed theories addressing the similarities and diff erences between male and female speech often focus on social and cultural infl uences that may cause a man or woman to act or speak in a certain way; for example, use more adjectives or a broader variety of adjectives. Moreover, they often use as their source materials anecdotes and personal data. As a result, the studies, and the papers they produce, are often infl uenced by researcher intuition (Baker 2014; Schmid 2003). Only within the last fi fteen to twenty years has it really been possible to analyze large collections of spoken data to test this intuition. Nevertheless, even with the advent of computer–assisted data analysis, the results are ambiguous. Th e aim of our study is to analyze male and female use of adjectives in the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE). We compare the use of select basic adjectives (good, bad, big, small, pretty, ugly, important, and diff erent) and their near synonyms in an attempt to support or call into question intuition–based claims that certain adjectives are more ‘feminine’ or ‘masculine’, or that women use more and a greater variety of adjectives than men. Th is paper hopes to contribute to the ongoing discussion regarding gender diff erences and language.
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Suvremena Lingvistika
Suvremena Lingvistika LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-
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