Gender-Related Use of Tonal Patterns in Mandarin Chinese: The Case of Sentence-Final Particle Ma

Xin Luo; Chu Ren Huang

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-28956-9_8

Gender-Related Use of Tonal Patterns in Mandarin Chinese: The Case of Sentence-Final Particle Ma

Xin Luo (Corresponding Author), Chu Ren Huang

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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Abstract

Gender and language and gendered language are two important topics where linguistic studies have great societal impacts. These two topic have not been well studied in Mandarin Chinese due to its lack of grammatical gender marking. We explore the gendered usage of Mandarin Chinese sentence-final particle (SFP) in casual conversation to address this issue. Previous studies of SPFs focus either on grammatical function or on pragmatic uses of expressing attitude or emotion. This study focuses on the gender-related use of tonal patterns in association with SFP ma in Mandarin Chinese. By combining the stance marking of Mandarin Chinese SFPs [13] as well as the attitudinal marking function of prosody to study gendered language patterned in Chinese, the results show that the gender selection of tonal patterns of ma in different sentence types seem to vary. We believe that this study will significantly enhance the research on language and gender.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Chinese Lexical Semantics
Subtitle of host publication	23rd Workshop, CLSW 2022, Virtual Event, May 14–15, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part II
Editors	Qi Su, Ge Xu, Xiaoyan Yang
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	96-107
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031289569
ISBN (Print)	9783031289552
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28956-9_8
Publication status	Published - 8 Apr 2023
Event	23rd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2022 - Virtual, Online Duration: 14 May 2022 → 15 May 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	13496 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	23rd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2022
City	Virtual, Online
Period	14/05/22 → 15/05/22

Keywords

Gender
Sentence-final particle
Tonal pattern

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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10.1007/978-3-031-28956-9_8

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Luo, X., & Huang, C. R. (2023). Gender-Related Use of Tonal Patterns in Mandarin Chinese: The Case of Sentence-Final Particle Ma. In Q. Su, G. Xu, & X. Yang (Eds.), Chinese Lexical Semantics: 23rd Workshop, CLSW 2022, Virtual Event, May 14–15, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (pp. 96-107). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13496 LNAI). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28956-9_8

Luo, Xin ; Huang, Chu Ren. / Gender-Related Use of Tonal Patterns in Mandarin Chinese : The Case of Sentence-Final Particle Ma. Chinese Lexical Semantics: 23rd Workshop, CLSW 2022, Virtual Event, May 14–15, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. editor / Qi Su ; Ge Xu ; Xiaoyan Yang. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. pp. 96-107 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Luo, X & Huang, CR 2023, Gender-Related Use of Tonal Patterns in Mandarin Chinese: The Case of Sentence-Final Particle Ma. in Q Su, G Xu & X Yang (eds), Chinese Lexical Semantics: 23rd Workshop, CLSW 2022, Virtual Event, May 14–15, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 13496 LNAI, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 96-107, 23rd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2022, Virtual, Online, 14/05/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28956-9_8

Gender-Related Use of Tonal Patterns in Mandarin Chinese: The Case of Sentence-Final Particle Ma. / Luo, Xin (Corresponding Author); Huang, Chu Ren.
Chinese Lexical Semantics: 23rd Workshop, CLSW 2022, Virtual Event, May 14–15, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. ed. / Qi Su; Ge Xu; Xiaoyan Yang. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. p. 96-107 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13496 LNAI).

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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