Gender Difference
“Gender difference in the Chinese language”
Marjorile KM Chan
Summary:
The passage talks about the difference between the language use in male and female.
Phonetic and phonology
1. Pitch ofvoice
Different pitch ranges may also be operation for female bilingual speakers
Larger pitch ragne Chinese vs non-tone language (English)
150 Hz female (average above)
150 Hz (anything on or below)
2. Pronunciation difference
Generally more sensitive to the prestige standard pronuncitaion
Female more than male
Young men dont really care about this
Men with position and authority may in less need of elebating their status by learning correct, standard pronunciation
3. Fronted palatal sound and dental caused more ‘feminine’
The pitch is higher, [v] sound female pronunce more
Variant [v] higher acoustic frequence
Example: taiwan
4. Sajiao(taiwan example)
Adorable petulance of spoiled child or young women, seeking for material and immaterail benefits from the unwilling listener.
(marked as feminie gender)
5. Very strong nasal sound
Inditice indirect and informal power in Chinese society
Standard man’s voice: low and heavy thick
(ma) their soften the tone
Unman if pronuncted by male
Speed
1. Male: faster (quicker in tempo)
2. Deep and low pitched
3. Intonation: flatten, falling
4. Authority
Lexicol (vocab)
Naming, kinship terms, address, and reference, social cultural politiocal
Male: taboo words, profainity words, slangs
Female: impolite to say so
Women use women. Renja
Seldom use pronoun
First paragraph talks about what we are gonna do for this paper, (eg the difference between the gender difference between korean, hindi, and cantonese (chinese), reason for doing is because there are not much comparason between asian language, which mostly focus on the difference between english and other languages in the world.
Second part, we have to state what the other has mentioned, like we can search for
Marjorile KM Chan
Summary:
The passage talks about the difference between the language use in male and female.
Phonetic and phonology
1. Pitch ofvoice
Different pitch ranges may also be operation for female bilingual speakers
Larger pitch ragne Chinese vs non-tone language (English)
150 Hz female (average above)
150 Hz (anything on or below)
2. Pronunciation difference
Generally more sensitive to the prestige standard pronuncitaion
Female more than male
Young men dont really care about this
Men with position and authority may in less need of elebating their status by learning correct, standard pronunciation
3. Fronted palatal sound and dental caused more ‘feminine’
The pitch is higher, [v] sound female pronunce more
Variant [v] higher acoustic frequence
Example: taiwan
4. Sajiao(taiwan example)
Adorable petulance of spoiled child or young women, seeking for material and immaterail benefits from the unwilling listener.
(marked as feminie gender)
5. Very strong nasal sound
Inditice indirect and informal power in Chinese society
Standard man’s voice: low and heavy thick
(ma) their soften the tone
Unman if pronuncted by male
Speed
1. Male: faster (quicker in tempo)
2. Deep and low pitched
3. Intonation: flatten, falling
4. Authority
Lexicol (vocab)
Naming, kinship terms, address, and reference, social cultural politiocal
Male: taboo words, profainity words, slangs
Female: impolite to say so
Women use women. Renja
Seldom use pronoun
First paragraph talks about what we are gonna do for this paper, (eg the difference between the gender difference between korean, hindi, and cantonese (chinese), reason for doing is because there are not much comparason between asian language, which mostly focus on the difference between english and other languages in the world.
Second part, we have to state what the other has mentioned, like we can search for