A Literature Study Investigating the Relationship between Language and Gender

Hu Zheng-Yan

doi:10.22158/jetss.v3n3p64

Abstract

Present the literature review focused on the true pictures of language and gender research conducted by scholars abroad and home. The current thesis aims at the differences and similarities in presenting female and male from lexical perspective and through lexicon related discourse analysis explores the connection between the vocabulary and the dominant gender ideologies of the magazine. There are differences and similarities in lexical choice. Reports on men and women both tend to use words, such as children, spouse, and business. Female images constructed by target lexicon differ from men’ and female were regarded as the second gender which is sealed in discourse.

Highlights

Present the literature review focused on the true pictures of language and gender research conducted by scholars abroad and home
Gender language is not a pure one, but a mixture of ideologies, cultural background or social moves, this research can give some useful suggestions for cross-culture communication and the sociolinguistic
1) What is the concrete manifestation of difference in male and female language? 2) What is the concrete manifestation of similarity in male and female language? 3) What is the relationship between the most frequent vocabulary in the magazine and their preferred gender ideologies? The first two research question will be answered based upon the outcomes of the empirical study and analyzed on the basis of theories of markedness; the last question will be explored in considerable detail with theories about social-linguistic

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Introduction

Present the literature review focused on the true pictures of language and gender research conducted by scholars abroad and home. 1. The Significance of This Study It is very meaningful to investigate the embedding of gender in language, and the main significances are as follows: First, the research aims to explain concrete manifestation of asymmetry and similarity in male and female language. 3. Studies in China There are considerable academic works both abroad and home investigating the relationship language and gender.

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