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Love Expressions by American and Chinese University Students

Author(s)

Xiaoya Ye

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5526/2017.01.005

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Beijing Foreign Studies University, China

ABSTRACT

Male and female speech is different in many ways. This study intends to compare and contrast love expressions used by American and Chinese university students. The participants of 40 university students, including American male university students, American female university students, Chinese male university students, and Chinese female university students, were selected randomly. Each of them was given one questionnaire. There was an introductory question, which aimed at finding out whether the participants would choose to express their love in verbal or written language, and if they would, how they would express it. Then the participants were channeled into the four different parts. Results showed that male university students of both nations were more eager to express their love and also had less constraints and pressure compared with their female counterparts did. American university students of both genders were more open and direct when they expressed their love, whereas Chinese university students of both genders were more reserved and tended to express their love indirectly.

KEYWORDS

Language and gender, love expressions, American university students, Chinese university students

Cite this paper

Sociology Study, January 2017, Vol. 7, No. 1, 25-35

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