问答题
In the English speaking world, there is variation in the use of "-ing" in words such as morning, and laughing. The variants are[*]—the standard variant—and[in], a nonstandard variant. The following table shows the results of a study which investigated whether the sex of addresser had an effect on which variant was used by two informants when they greeted people with "Morning, or Good morning".[*]How would you account for these findings?(20 points)
【正确答案】正确答案：It is interesting to know that the languages used by men and women have some special features of their own. It has been observed by linguists that women are usually more status-conscious than men in the English-speaking world; therefore, their speech closely approaches the standard variety than the speech of men. For instance, an investigation in Norwich, England shows that women have a lower frequency of -n for -ng than men do. This means that women are on the whole more "correct" in their pronunciation than men are.(15 points) According to Robin Lakoff, the first one that began to study this issue, it is not language itself but women"s place in society that makes women linguistically behave in that way.(5 points)