摘要
伴随20世纪七十年代女权运动的兴起,语言学家们一直在对语言性别差异做深入的研究并试图确定女性言语的主要特点。在社会语言学里,说话者的性别一直被当作独立的变量来对待。大多数关于语言性别差异的研究都在强调,无论实证与否,女性使用语言和男性的不同,这也已经成为了一种规范。本文首先通过提出"客观性"质疑所谓的女性语言,然后介绍了有关的经典著作。本文的主要目的不是声称女性和男性使用完全一样的语言,而是阐明社会语言学里一些关于女性言语的成见在现实生活实属言过其实。
Since the 1970's,as feminism developed,linguists have conducted thorough research into differences between sexes.They have tried to determine the features that 'women's language' contains.In sociolinguistics,a speaker's sex has been treated as an independent variable.Most of the linguistic research into sex differences has emphasized,empirically or not,how different 'women's language' is from men's language which is considered to be the norm.In this paper,first 'objectivity' is put forward to question the alleged women's language.Thereby typical works concerning women's language is introduced.The aim of this paper is not to state that women speak exactly the same way as men but to show how stereotypes of women's speech in sociolinguistics are more unfairly exaggerated in reality.
关键词
女性言语
女权运动
社会语言学
客观性
成见
women's language
feminism
sociolinguistics
objectivity
stereotype
