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1、Running head: LANGUAGE AND GENDERLanguage and genderName: 张三 (in Chinese)Student ID: English Class: 102Department: Foreign languages and Literatures, School of Humanities AbstractDifferent approaches to the issue of language and gender can lead to different understandings of it. Research on the issu
2、e can focus on either dominance or difference, but not necessarily mutually exclusive. Understanding how men and women use language differently involves gathering empirical data of both mens and womens speech, a complex understanding of power and gender relationships and other related issues. Keywor
3、ds: language, gender, difference, relationship Language and GenderIntroductionWith the general growth of feminist work in many academic fields, it is hardly surprising that the relationship between language and gender has attracted considerable attention in recent years. In an attempt to go beyond f
4、olklinguistic assumptions about how men and women use language (the assumption that women are talkative, for example), studies have focused on anything from different syntactical, phonological or lexical uses of language to aspects of conversation analysis, such as topic nomination and control, inte
5、rruptions and other interactional features. While some research has focused only on the description of differences, other work has sought to show how linguistic differences both reflect and reproduce social difference. Accordingly, Coates (1988) suggests that research on language and gender can be d
6、ivided into studies that focus on dominance and those that focus on difference. Literature ReviewMuch of the earlier work emphasized dominance. Lakoffs (1975) pioneering work suggested Example of a literature review is adapted fromSource: http:/ecdev.hku.hk/acadgrammar/litrev/examples/litex3.htmthat
7、 womens speech typically displayed a range of features, such as tag questions, which marked it as inferior and weak. Thus, she argued that the type of subordinate speech learned by a young girl will later be an excuse others use to keep her in a demeaning position, to refuse to treat her seriously a
8、s a human being (1975, p.5). While there are clearly some problems with Lakoffs work - her analysis was not based on empirical research, for example, and the automatic equation of subordinate with weak is problematic - the emphasis on dominance has understandably remained at the Centre of much of th
9、is work. Research has shown how men nominated topics more, interrupted more often, held the floor for longer, and so on (see, for example, Zimmerman and West, 1975). The chief focus of this approach, then, has been to show how patterns of interaction between men and women reflect the dominant positi
10、on of men in society. Some studies, however, have taken a different approach by looking not so much at power in mixed-sex interactions as at how same-sex groups produce certain types of interaction. In a typical study of this type, Maltz and Borker (1982) developed lists of what they described as me
11、ns and womens features of language. They argued that these norms of interaction were acquired in same-sex groups rather than mixed-sex groups and that the issue is therefore one of (sub-)cultural miscommunication rather than social inequality. Much of this research has focused on comparisons between
12、, for example, the competitive conversational style of men and the cooperative conversational style of women. While some of the more popular work of this type, such as Tannen (1987), lacks a critical dimension, the emphasis on difference has nevertheless been valuable in fostering research into gend
13、er subgroup interactions and in emphasizing the need to see womens language use not only as subordinate but also as a significant subcultural domain. Although Coates (1988) distinction is clearly a useful one, it also seems evident that these two approaches are by no means mutually exclusive. While
14、it is important on the one hand, therefore, not to operate with a simplistic version of power and to consider language and gender only in mixed-group dynamics, it is also important not to treat womens linguistic behaviour as if it existed outside social relations of power. Conclusion and Future Stud
15、yAs Cameron, McAlinden and OLeary (1988) ask, Can it be coincidence that men are aggressive and hierarchically-organized conversationalists, whereas women are expected to provide conversational support? (p.80). Clearly, there is scope here for a great deal more research that l is based on empirical
16、data of mens and womens speech; l operates with a complex understanding of power and gender relationships (so that womens silence, for example, can be seen both as a site of oppression and as a site of possible resistance); l looks specifically at the contexts of language use, rather than assuming b
17、road gendered differences; l involves more work by men on language and gender, since attempts to understand male uses of language in terms of difference have been few (thus running the danger of constructing mens speech as the norm and womens speech as different); l aims not only to describe and exp
18、lain but also to change language and social relationships. ReferencesCameron, D., McAlinden F. and OLeary K. (1988). Lakoff in context: the social and linguistic function of tag questions. In J. Coates and D. Cameron (op. cit.). pp. 74-93.Coates, J. & Cameron D. (Eds.) (1988). Women in their speech communities. Harl
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