Gender difference in children's language

Povzetek

Up to the present day the gender difference in children's language has been studied by various researchers. The amount of research done, the differences in methods used, and the contradictory results raise questions about the initial idea - Are there gender based differences in childrenćs language? If there are, how are they demonstrated and what are they? What are the best research methods? Does the gender language difference in childhood, in any way, influence language skills in adulthood? The questions being so complex, it is impossible to cover all the areas mentioned above. What I want to do in this contribution is to summarize the actual research done in this field until today. I present a few theories that have been available over the last fifty years and I have given various research models and methods in order to cover this topic. The actual results are not surprising: differences do exist and the variations are huge. However the amount of gender innateness and the social influence of gender stereotypes create difficulties in measuring separately the difference in language caused by gender. We therefore, need to go back to the original biological and social questions of what makes a male male and what makes a female female. In the same way, all the other individual differences in children are posited under the same question - Are they a part of gender difference or is gender difference only a small part of the whole individual forming his or her personality?

Ključne besede

language;gender differences;innateness;social environment;girl's stereotypes;boy's stereotypes;language styles;

Podatki

Jezik:	Angleški jezik
Leto izida:	2007
Tipologija:	1.02 - Pregledni znanstveni članek
Organizacija:	UP - Univerza na Primorskem
Založnik:	Centro di ricerche scientifiche della Repubblica di Slovenia
UDK:	81'27:159.922.1-053.2
COBISS:	1259987
ISSN:	1408-5348
Št. ogledov:	2517
Št. prenosov:	35
Ocena:	0 (0 glasov)
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Ostali podatki

Sekundarni jezik:	Slovenski jezik
Sekundarne ključne besede:	jezik;razlike med spoloma;prirojenost;socialno okolje;spolni stereotipi;jezikovni stili;
URN:	URN:NBN:SI
Vrsta dela (COBISS):	Delo ni kategorizirano
Strani:	str. 197-206
Letnik:	ǂLetn. ǂ17
Zvezek:	ǂšt. ǂ1
Čas izdaje:	2007
ID:	1739491