Linguistic Gender is Related to Psychological Gender: The Case of Chinese Characters

Linguistic Gender is Related to Psychological Gender: The Case of Chinese Characters

Past research (Ervin, 1972; Konishi, 1993) suggests that a noun's linguistic gender is not just an arbitrary, semantically-empty linguistic category. Rather it may connote masculine or feminine properties, and thus can subtly influence responses to the noun and its referent. The present study e...

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Main Authors: TONG, Yuk-Yue, CHIU, Chi-Yue, FU, Ho-Ying
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2001
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Asian Studies
Multicultural Psychology
Social Psychology
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/281
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1280/viewcontent/Tong_etal__Linguistic_Gender__2001.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
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