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Social Identity and Language Use: Gender, Age, Region, Social Factors

Liying HuangLingnan Normal University Wanjing WuZhejiang Wanli University*

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

Communication is a necessity for human beings, it is something that almost everyone does every day. But sometimes misunderstandings will happen between different people with different backgrounds. To get a deeper understanding about communication what kind of misunderstandings will occur, and how the misunderstandings occur. The paper reviews the reasons that cause misunderstandings in four aspects---- gender, age, region, and social identity. For gender, the researchers gave a lot of examples to describe the types of misunderstandings between men and women. For age, the words the old and the young use will be shown, and the researchers will analyze the differences between them. For region, the researchers will use China and America as examples to prove the correlation between the distance of the destination to the capital and specific language, and then analyze the data to prove the relationship between the invader and the number of official languages. For social identity, the researchers will analyze a few examples of the way people talk when they are in different social identities. The researchers found that people of different genders, of different ages, and from different regions, have different social identities have different ways of using language.

Keywords: communication; misunderstanding; language region; sociolinguistics; language usage
Published: December 7, 2023
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/21/20231527
Volume: CHR Vol.21
pp. 291-297
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