a statistical analysis on pragmatic characteristics of american women’s lexical usage【文獻(xiàn)綜述】

1、<p>　　Literature Review</p><p>　　A Statistical Analysis on Pragmatic Characteristics of American Women’s Lexical Usage</p><p>　　Sociolinguistic is a discipline which investigates languages

2、and social relations. Wardhaugh pointed out that “sociolinguistics is concerned with investigating the relationship of the structure of language and of how languages function in communication.”(2000, p.12) Since sociolin

3、guistics is a discipline investigating the relationship between languages and society, it is about how people use languages and how do they convey information. People’s expression of languages is influenced by social ac&

4、lt;/p><p>　　This literature review is about the references that will be used and quoted in the thesis, among which three books and three journals will be chosen to discuss here: The Handbook of Sociolinguistics

5、, The Sociolinguistics of Language, Sociolinguistic Research Methodology Theory and Practice; Discussion on the Characteristics of Women’s Language Usage in English, A Brief Analysis on the Characteristics of Female Engl

6、ish from the Aspect of Sociolinguistics.</p><p>　　The Handbook of Sociolinguistics written by Florian Coulmas (2001) is useful to this thesis. This book is mainly concerns about the up-to-date writings on th

7、e most important branches of linguistic studies, which are written by famous scholars who are recognized as leading authorities in their fields. The eighth writing of the book entitled “ Gender as a Sociolinguistic Varia

8、ble: New Perspectives on Variation Studies” written by Ruth Wodak and Gertraud Benke gives us the definition of gender and </p><p>　　A research must base on a methodology. Sociolinguistic Research Methodolog

9、y: Theory and Practice written by Zhang Tingguo and Hao Shuzhuang (2008), which introduces the theory of sociolinguistic and the methodology used in sociolinguistic. The authors introduce the methods that can be used in

10、the research of sociolinguistics, which includes questionnaire, interviews and observations. In each method, they give very specific introduction including the procedures, types, concerns, and ways of apply</p>&l

11、t;p>　　Theories and methodology are listed above. Putting theory into practice is needed. It’ll mainly talk about the practice as follows. In The Sociolinguistics of Language edited by Ralph Fasold (2000), there’s one

12、chapter entitled “Language and Sex” discussing men’s and women’s language forms, sex differences in language use, terms related to sex in language and etc. Not like the chapter described in The Handbook of Sociolinguisti

13、cs, The Sociolinguistics of Language gives a detailed analysis of gen</p><p>　　While in the thesis Discussion on the Characteristics of Women’s Language Usage in English chosen from the Journal of Fuzhou Uni

14、versity (Social Science) written by Lin Xiaoying (1994) describes the characteristics of females’ speech from the perspective of lexicon, standardability and elegancy. On describing women’s usage of lexicon, she describe

15、s three aspects of lexicon: color terms, adjectives and adverbs. However, she doesn’t give us a comprehensive analysis on female’s lexicon usage. She al</p><p>　　In another thesis A Brief Analysis on the Cha

16、racteristics of Female English form the Aspect of Sociolinguistics chosen from Journal of Hubei TV University written by Dong Fang (2007) analyzes females’ lexicon usage from the view of usage of exaggerate adjectives, p

17、articles, adverbs, color terms, polite words and the avoidance of curse words. Though compared with the former journal, she makes more specific description on the characteristics of females’ lexicon usage form more aspec

18、ts, she doesn’t</p><p>　　All these books and articles are helpful to this thesis. They give a better understanding and the methodology of doing the research. But more statistical data are needed to have a fu

19、rther analysis on the characteristics of females’ lexicon usage. </p><p><b>　　Reference</b></p><p>　　[1] Florian Coulmas. The Handbook of Sociolinguistics[M]. 北京：外語教學(xué)與研究出版社，2001.<

20、/p><p>　　[2] Ralph Fasold. The Sociolinguistics of Language[M]. 北京：外語教學(xué)與研究出版社，2000.</p><p>　　[3] 董芳(Dong, Fang). 運(yùn)用社會(huì)語言學(xué)簡析女性語言風(fēng)格特色[J]. 湖北廣播電視大學(xué)學(xué)報(bào)，2007, 27(3):57-59.</p><p>　　[4] 林曉英(Li