英汉道歉策略使用的性别差异研究

On the Gender Differences in English and Chinese Apology

作为一种言语行为,道歉语在文化中起着重要作用。通过对中美男女大学生进行调查分析发现,中国人比美国人更多使用明确道歉策略;女性的道歉行为比男性要多;在表达形式上,女性比男性也更多地使用道歉的两种表达式加一个强势词。

As a speech act,apologies play an important role in different cultures.By conducting an investigation in the Chinese and American male and female students,the writer makes an analysis and finds that the Chinese apologize more often than the Americans and that women tend to make more apologies than men;so far as the expression forms are concerned,more often,women use two kinds of expression forms plus a strong word.