性别因素对名人自夸言语行为的影响

The Influence of Gender on Celebrities’ Self-Praise Speech Acts

摘要: 随着社交媒体的普及，越来越多的人在网络上通过自夸来塑造良好的个人形象。最近有研究调查了中国社交媒体上的自夸言语行为，然而，性别因素是否会影响自夸言语行为，这一课题至今仍未涉及。为了填补研究空白，本研究旨在调查男性名人和女性名人在自夸中的相似及差异之处。本研究以20位名人(男女各10位)为研究对象，调查了他们于2022年9月1日至10月31日在微博上发布的推文，结果共收集到132条有关自夸的推文。这些推文中的自夸被分成三类：不加修饰的显性自夸、加以修饰的显性自夸和隐性自夸。结果表明，男性名人和女性名人在自夸行为上有三点相似之处和两点不同之处。此外，本研究还对男女名人的相似处做了说明，并用Tannen的差异论来解释他们之间自夸行为的不同处。

Abstract: With the popularity of social media, a growing number of people build favourable self-image through self-praise. A recent study investigated self-praise speech acts on Chinese social media, but whether gender influences the realization of self-praise remains understudied to date. To fill the research gap, the study aims to explore the similarities and differences between two genders in terms of self-praise. This study is based on a corpus of 132 micro-blogs that were sent by 20 Chinese celebrities (10 males and 10 female) during two months from September 1st, 2022 to October 31st, 2022. Self-praise speech acts on these micro-blogs can be divided into three types: explicit self-praise without modification, modified explicit self-praise and implicit self-praise. The results show 3 similarities and 2 differences. In addition, this study explains the similarities between two groups and uses Tannen’s Difference Approach to analyze the differences.