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Register a new userA diachronic evaluation of gender asymmetry in euphemism
تقييم DIACHRONIC للاخلار بين الجنسين في طرد
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استخدام الوعود هو سائق معروف لتغيير اللغة. وقد اقترح أن تستخدم النساء النساء أكثر من الرجال. على الرغم من وجود العديد من الدراسات التي تحقق في الاختلافات بين الجنسين في اللغة، إلا أن المطالبة المتعلقة باستخدام الاستحمام لم يتم اختبارها بشكل شامل عبر الزمن. إذا كانت النساء يستخدمن اللفائف أكثر، فقد يعني ذلك أن النساء يقودن أيضا تكوين عمليات إفراطية جديدة وتغيير اللغة مع مرور الوقت. باستخدام أربعة نص شهير كوربورا كبيرة من اللغة الإنجليزية، نقيم الادعاء بأن النساء يستخدمن الزيادات أكثر من الرجال من خلال تحليل كمي. كنا قمنا بتجميع قائمة ب 106 أزواج من الطبع - المحرمات لتحليل استخدامها النسبي عبر الزمن من قبل كل جنس في Corga. على عكس الاعتقاد الحالي، تظهر نتائجنا أن النساء لا يستخدمن اللفائف ذات نسبة أعلى من الرجال. كررنا التحليل باستخدام قائمة فرعية مختلفة من قائمة الأزواج من الادعاء-المحرمات ووجدت أن النتيجة كانت قوية. تشير دراستنا إلى أنه في مجموعة واسعة من الإعدادات التي تنطوي على كل من الخطاب والكتابة، ومع درجات متفاوتة من الأشكال، لا تستخدم النساء أو تشكيل الزيادات أكثر من الرجال.
The use of euphemisms is a known driver of language change. It has been proposed that women use euphemisms more than men. Although there have been several studies investigating gender differences in language, the claim about euphemism usage has not been tested comprehensively through time. If women do use euphemisms more, this could mean that women also lead the formation of new euphemisms and language change over time. Using four large diachronic text corpora of English, we evaluate the claim that women use euphemisms more than men through a quantitative analysis. We assembled a list of 106 euphemism-taboo pairs to analyze their relative use through time by each gender in the corpora. Contrary to the existing belief, our results show that women do not use euphemisms with a higher proportion than men. We repeated the analysis using different subsets of the euphemism-taboo pairs list and found that our result was robust. Our study indicates that in a broad range of settings involving both speech and writing, and with varying degrees of formality, women do not use or form euphemisms more than men.
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