GENDER LANGUAGE CONVERGENCE IN CONTEMPORARY CHINESE SOCIETY
WANGCHU MA *
College of Foreign Languages, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei, China
YUNCHAO ZHAI
College of Foreign Languages, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei, China
LU CHANG
College of Foreign Languages, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, Hebei, China
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Gender language is the realization of the profound and complicated consciousness about gender, which is embedded in and hidden behind a language. As the society progresses, gender language convergences have occurred correspondingly. However, most of the on-going researches are conducted to find gender language differences. Thus, it is high time to study gender language convergence phenomena in contemporary China.
Keywords: Gender language, convergence, lexical