Open AccessGender Stereotype in Prosody: Japanese Interactional Particles NE and YO
Author(s) -
Mie Hiramoto-Sanders
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual meeting of the berkeley linguistics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2377-1666
pISSN - 0363-2946
DOI - 10.3765/bls.v28i1.3826
Subject(s) - prosody , intonation (linguistics) , style (visual arts) , stereotype (uml) , psychology , interpretation (philosophy) , focus (optics) , linguistics , social psychology , developmental psychology , physics , art , literature , philosophy , optics
In this paper, I will focus on how prosody affects the interpretation of genderneutral interactional particles ne and yo in Japanese. The interactional particles are potential sites for stereotyping, and "males have flatter intonation pattern than females do in pitch range and pitch heights" (McConnell-Ginet 1983: 73). Based on these assumptions, a purpose of the paper is to find possible answers for the following research questions: I) Will gender stereotype characteristics appear on some of the most frequently used particles such as ne or yo? and 2) Wil female-style speech, in general, will be more emphasized than male-style speech?