TITLE:
Gender Difference in Hedging: A Corpus-Based Study to TED Talks about Emotion
AUTHORS:
Xuwei Li, Feipeng Li
KEYWORDS:
Corpus, Gender Difference, Hedging, TED Talk
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.11 No.10,
October
27,
2020
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.