高職學生的課堂與閒聊對話分析: 聚焦性別差異

111年01月17日  

研究生：陳詠蟬

指導教授：陳錦慧 博士

高職學生的課堂與閒聊對話分析: 聚焦性別差異

Conversation Analysis of Senior High School Students’ Daily and Class Talk: A Focus on the Gendered Differences 

摘要:

     語言與性別自1970年以來一直是社會語言學領域中之研究重心，許多知名的語言學者也進行相關的觀察與探討，使得該領域積累相當豐碩的研究成果，然而這些大多數是針對西方社會的研究，缺乏對於東方社會性別與語言現象的探討。植基於此，本研究想探討臺灣高職男女學生語言使用的性別差異，因此請參與者錄下他/她們日常閒聊與上課討論之內容，根據對話分析剖析學生在同性之間及異性間互動的對話特色。本研究分為兩個部分，一為男生與女生同性間日常互動的對話分析，另一則為課堂間的男女混組討論的分析。結果顯示女生在同性間的日常對話相較於男生同性間投入，插話的比率也較多；而在說髒話的頻率上，女生在同性間也比男生高一些，與以往文獻指出男生比較會說髒話的結果有所不同。但在實習課男女同組的討論上，男生的發言次數與比女生多出許多，顯示在正式公開的場域，男生明顯掌控話語權，這個結果大致上與之前的研究並無二致。本研究亦希望這些成果能提供未來此領域研究者一些基礎。

關鍵詞: 社會語言學、性別與語言、會話分析 

Abstract:

     Since gender difference in language styles has been one of major issues in sociolinguistics from 1970s, many famous linguists have provided their points of view or theories to explain the difference of gender discourse. However, their researches are mainly based in Western societies and rarely in Chinese-speaking communities. The main contribution of this study is to provide a complimentary insight to existing literature on language and gender studies. The conversation analysis and frequency analysis were used to analyze some conversational features (verbosity, overlap, interruption, taboo and swearing language, and male dominance) among vocational high school students to observe gendered differences in conversational styles. The research results showed that the frequent overlap that appeared in girls’ same sex talk, while the boys seemed to prefer sticking with the one-at-a-time turn-taking rule in their same sex talk. Interruption happened more frequently in female’ same sex talk. In a word, female students were more involved in their same sex talk. They also used more taboo languages when interacting with their female peers. While in mixed-sex contexts, male students tend to take on the dominant roles in leading the progress of the talk. The male dominance was very prominent. This conversational feature is generally consistent with the previous researches.

Keywords: Sociolinguistics, Same sex talk, Mixed-sex talk, Conversation analysis