从性别语言谈维护面子理论Gender Language Difference:A New Interpretation [4]
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关键词:face-saving theoryfacegender difference in languageNew InterpretationNegative face and positive face
les. In the cross-sex conversations, though, the ratios were all below 0.5 except for one and, in every case, the woman had more silence “charged to” her.
(Fasold, 2000: 108)
The result surely shows that women use this strategy frequently.
From A to E above, we can see that A is likely to used by males while B to E are more often used by females.Why should we have such a result? We have known that in reality, men want to seize and maintain control over the progress of conversation. As a result, it's difficult for them to pay attention to the hearer's face, positive or negative. So they're more likely to use the direct and obvious strategy to express their own idea and take the first strategy. Women, on the other hand, have lower status in society. They're always looked down upon and are not listened to by the others so they tend to use various indirect interactive strategies to increase the probability that their contributions will be attended to and supported by their conversational partners. At the same time, they themselves tend far more to support the conversational agendas of the people they are talking with in order to maintain their faces (Fasold, 2000: 116). As a result, B to E will be adopted more often by women.
4. Conclusion
People of different gender exist in society. They'll be influenced by different social values put upon them. So gender is a problem, which cannot be neglected in language. And in communication, gender is always seriously considered by interactants. In order to make the conversation advance smoothly, speakers should be polite to the hearers. However, there are often different politeness requirements made of by the society or by the men and women themselves, so we should pay attention to this gender language difference in FST.
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