On Contrastive Gender Study of Speech Act of Threats by Chinese and American College Students
Yue Zhu · Anhui Nongye Daxue xuebao · 2010
Based on the achievements of some related early studies, this study, using discourse completion tasks, adopts both the qualitative approach and the quantitative approach to investigate gender differences between Chinese and American college students and within each group in realization patterns and implement strategies of threats. Chi-square tests indicate that there are no significant differences between genders within each group in both aspects, and between male subjects from each country in implement strategies. However, the tests demonstrate that differences between the same or mixed genders from two countries reach significant level.