时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

     语言本是人们沟通的工具,没有性别之分,但由于男女的社会分工、性格特色、生理特点不同,每一种语言都深深地打上了性别的烙印。在国外,有部分社会语言学家,专门研究语言与性别的关系。美国有一位学者Graham Goodwin,从1980年到1990年,先后十次,在费城街头,收集不同年龄、种族、职业的男、女行人的谈话,进行比较研究,结果发现,与男人的语言相比,女人的语言至少有下列特点。


    A. 女人喜欢使用第一人称复数(我们)形式,比如We need……(我们需要),而男人喜欢使用第一人称单数(我),比如I want……(我想要)。
    B. 女人喜欢使用平易、通俗的单词,比如用nice、sweet等来形容(好),而男人喜欢使用华丽、夸张的单词,比如用splendid、gorgeous等来形容“好”。
    C. 女人喜欢创造一些比较女性化的说法,比如dove 1 grey(类似鸽子羽毛的灰色),而男人喜欢使用英语标准的说法,比如light grey(浅灰色)。
    D. 女人重视语法的正确性,比如We're going to……(我们正在去/即将去),而男人不重视语法的正确性,比如We're gonna……(我们正在去/即将去)。
    E. 女人喜欢直接引用,比如Hannah said that……(汉娜说),而男人喜欢间接引用,比如She said that……(她说)。
    F. 女人喜欢礼貌表达,比如Would you please……(您能),而男人喜欢常规表达,比如Can you……(你能)。
    最后一个,同时也是最重要的一个特点,那就是女人喜欢倾听,而男人喜欢诉说,比如下面一段对话,拿给普通的美国人看一遍,然后让他们判断一下A和B的性别,结果所有人都认为:喋喋不休的A是男人,随声附和的B是女人。
    A: I saw a kingfisher Saturday morning.
    B: Did you﹖A: It took off about three feet from my side. I didn't see it in the bush. It took off out of abush.
    B: Mmmm.
    A: Passed the front of my canoe and flew into a tree. I sat there...
    B: Very nice.
    A: and thought ...
    B: Yeah.
    A: It looked down at me and it was really bright.
    B: Beautiful.

n.鸽,温和派人物,“鸽派”人物
  • A dove is often used as a symbol of peace.鸽常作为和平的象征。
  • Paul seemed more impressed by the dove.保尔似乎对鸽子更感兴趣。
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absolute overpopulation
accuracy of equalization
adaptative enzyme
aluminum phoshpate
autowrench
baby break
bear's ear
belauded
button menu
BUTX
carcinomat-
cashiers' checks
central cataract
chain-bridge
circumflex fibular branch
closed feliation structure
colletotrichum intermedium
concrete track bed
corporate powers
curd formation
cutout relay armature
defensibly
descaling pump
detonating explosive
double bevel groove
downmouth
drop in level
dual character of labo(u)r
dust condensing flue
facsimile telegraphy or radio
feistily
field-stripping
find what's what o'clock it is
FLHAG
fo sheezie
Foreign bond market
frit files
gaillardiellus superciliaris
genetotrophic
got the ball
Grey Lady
guemars
gulty
hard scale
heat-supply system based upon heating plant
honour system
horrall
hotel register
hydrogen gas buffer
instinct theory
intelligence source
intestinal scissors
kolfanite
labonte
lanching
latiaxis hayashii
lightning arrester characteristics
macracanthorhynchiasis
magnesium diamide
marzipan layer,marzipan set
memorial system
microprocessing unit addressing mode
miscellaneous receipt transaction
miscognition
multiplicative congruence
natural-law function generator
network computer(nc)
note payable to bearer
nucumentaceous
oral historian
osteogenic action
parallel axis gear
personal - size package
polish agent
polyurathamc
pressure-vacuum gauge
profit decentralization
recordable compact disc
Secernentea
semi-dual control
sequence-similarity
shadow definer
shit holes
Simon Marks
snap header
socies
special review
star bit
storage for dangerous goods
strepsiphase
Stryków
swell scale
tangent-cam
terminating plug
tower equipment
transverse ligament of knee
trial jurisdiction
unrubberised
wag the dog
walling crib
with one's hackles up
zash