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

• Main Authors: TONG, Yuk-Yue, CHIU, Chi-Yue, FU, Ho-Ying
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2001
• Subjects: 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
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...