On the Trend of Convergence in Gender and Political Speech under the Perspective of Performance Theory A Case Study on 2008 President Election Candidates of USA
- DOI
- 10.2991/icelaic-14.2014.78How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Gender language, performance theory, convergence, political speech
- Abstract
The study of gender language is mainly concerned with how gender as a variable affects the ways people of different genders use language. In the past few decades, scholars have put forward deficit theory, difference theory and dominance theory, which opened a new era of gender language study. However, these theories regard gender differences in language as the inevitable. Consequently, Ecket & McConnell-Ginet, and Bulter put forward the idea of social constructionist gender theory to argue that gender is a social construction implicated with other social identities in a multivariant way. This thesis intends to investigate gender and language in a dynamic process and selects data from the 2008 Presidential Election of United States. The study aims at examining language and gender from the angle of Performance Theory in the framework of stylistic analysis. And both quantitative and qualitative methods are applied. The thesis tries to explore whether trend of convergence in gender language does exists.
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- © 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Wangchu Ma AU - Xianzhi Wang PY - 2014/05 DA - 2014/05 TI - On the Trend of Convergence in Gender and Political Speech under the Perspective of Performance Theory A Case Study on 2008 President Election Candidates of USA BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Intercultural Communication PB - Atlantis Press SP - 307 EP - 311 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icelaic-14.2014.78 DO - 10.2991/icelaic-14.2014.78 ID - Ma2014/05 ER -