Corpus-Based Gender Differences in English Language:Take He, She and His, Her as Examples  

作　　者：温梦媛 

机构地区：[1]武汉理工大学

出　　处：《校园英语》2020年第7期245-246,共2页English On Campus

摘　　要：Language is a tool of communication. There are many differences in the use of English which may can reflecting the differences in gender. This paper uses the British National Corpus to compare the two sets of words "he", "she" and "his", "her", from the four aspects of word frequency, register, collocation and semantic prosody. It is found that the differences between men and women in English reflecting the differences in social status and division of labor between them.

关 键 词：GENDER difference REGISTER COLLOCATION semantic PROSODY 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]