Open AccessA Study of Gender Differences in English from the Perspective of Sociolinguistics
Author(s) -
Saiyao Zhang,
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Yu Sun,
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Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of languages, literature and linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2972-3108
pISSN - 2382-6282
DOI - 10.18178/ijlll.2022.8.1.319
Subject(s) - sociolinguistics , perspective (graphical) , interrogative , linguistics , drama , psychology , american english , english language , gender studies , sociology , literature , art , philosophy , visual arts
As we all know, there are certain differences between female and male in physiology and psychology, but for a long time, the language characteristics and differences between female and male have been rarely known. Until the rise of the American women's Liberation Movement in the last century, linguists began to pay more attention to the differences in language between different genders. In this paper, the author selects 22 episodes of the first season of the American drama How I Met Your Mother and arranges the conversations among them. Then the author studies the language differences of female and male from five aspects: adjectives, hedges, interrogative sentences and exclamatory sentences and topics. The author hopes that this study can provide empirical help for the study of language differences between female and male.