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标题：Gender Difference in Hedging: A Corpus-Based Study to TED Talks about Emotion
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作者：Xuwei Li ; Feipeng Li
期刊名称：Creative Education
印刷版ISSN：2151-4755
电子版ISSN：2151-4771
出版年度：2020
卷号：11
期号：10
页码：2106-2115
DOI：10.4236/ce.2020.1110153
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：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.
关键词：Corpus;Gender Difference;Hedging;TED Talk