Gender Difference in Hedging: A Corpus-Based Study to TED Talks about Emotion - Creative Education

CE > Vol.11 No.10, October 2020

Creative Education

Volume 11, Issue 10 (October 2020)

ISSN Print: 2151-4755 ISSN Online: 2151-4771

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Gender Difference in Hedging: A Corpus-Based Study to TED Talks about Emotion ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ce.2020.1110153 1,354 Downloads 6,428 Views Citations

Author(s)

Xuwei Li, Feipeng Li

Affiliation(s)

Baoding University, Baoding, China.

ABSTRACT

In the development of linguistics, many experts tried to identify the gender difference in language use from different perspectives. Many studies show that different genders have different preference when choosing hedging words to express their stands. But recently some other researches doubted the existence of such gender difference in pragmatic. This study established a corpus and analyzed 12 TED talks delivered by different genders and tried to find out whether the gender difference in hedging words exist. The result shows that gender difference does exist in word choice and lexical diversity. This study may shed some light for the following study to continue the research of gender difference from the angle of word choice.

KEYWORDS

Corpus, Gender Difference, Hedging, TED Talk

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Li, X. and Li, F. (2020) Gender Difference in Hedging: A Corpus-Based Study to TED Talks about Emotion. Creative Education, 11, 2106-2115. doi: 10.4236/ce.2020.1110153.

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