Perceptions of Gender and Femininity Based on Language: Implications for Transgender Communication Therapy
Perceptions of Gender and Femininity Based on Language: Implications for Transgender Communication Therapy
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DOI：
10.1177/0023830914549084
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发表时间：
2015-09-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Bass, Annie
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作者：
Hancock, Adrienne B.;Stutts, Holly Wilder;Bass, Annie
最近的研究表明，语言中的性别差异正在缩小。两个实验研究了语言使用是否可以预测性别和女性气质的看法;一个包括男性和女性发言者讲述个人故事，另一个也包括男性到女性的跨性别发言者，并分析了口头图片描述。在每个实验中，评分员在判断性别和评价说话者的女性气质之前阅读转录样本。性别群体之间只有T单位数量、每个T单位的单词数、每个T单位的从属分句和每个T单位的人称代词存在差异。由于没有一个变量与感性判断密切相关，回归分析被用来确定语言变量的组合如何预测女性/女性评级。这两项研究的结果表明，在这两种情况下，语言使用中与性别有关的差异是有限的，语言与性别和女性气质的任何关系都是复杂和多元的。这一信息对跨性别沟通治疗中训练关键语言特征的效用提出了质疑。
Recent research presents a picture of diminishing gender differences in language. Two experiments examined whether language use can predict perceptions of gender and femininity; one included male and female speakers telling a personal narrative, the other also included male-to-female transgender speakers and analyzed an oral picture description. In each experiment, raters read transcribed samples before judging the gender and rating the femininity of the speaker. Only number of T-units, words per T-unit, dependent clauses per T-unit, and personal pronouns per T-unit emerged as different between gender groups. As none of the variables were strongly correlated with perceptual judgments, regression analysis was used to determine how combinations of linguistic variables predict female/feminine ratings. Results from these two studies demonstrate that gender-related differences in language use for these two contexts are limited, and that any relationship of language to perceptions of gender and femininity is complex and multivariate. This information calls into question the utility of training key language features in transgender communication therapy.