For years,there has been a considerable interest in linguistic differentiation associated with the speaker’s gender.Based on the researches and investigations of many linguists,this paper examines the linguistic gender differences from the following respects:gender difference in phonology,gender difference in lexicon,gender difference in syntax and gender differences in pragmatics.The awareness of these linguistic differences between different genders can facilitate people’s communication in their daily lives.
Written by the American novelist William Faulkner,his first short story A Rose for Emily is a typical representative of his works.This paper is to analyze the story from its stylistic features.
Since the proposal of metafunctions, they are often used to analyze the discourse. This paper is to analyze the text About Books from these three metafunctions.
