A Study of Gender Difference in Language from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle--Taking Emma as an Example.

Emma was a representative book of Jane Austen. She wrote six novels all her life; however some scholars think that it's perhaps the most mature one. Therefore, Emma has also become the main novel to study not only in the field of literature but also in linguistics. However, most of the researches in China focus on the characters, language features, and feminism in it. Few people analyze this novel from the perspective of sociolinguistics and pragmatics. This paper mainly uses the Cooperative Principle as the theoretical framework to do some research in the dialogue fragments in the novel in order to analyze the gender differences in language. What's more, this paper will explore the language difference of male and female in avoiding Cooperative Principle. This article is a new study of Emma and a deep understanding of the gender differences in language in order to inspire the future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]