In this paper I investigate one aspect of the relationship between gender and mock politeness, focussing in particular on sarcastic behaviours. Previous research into sarcasm as an academic concept has suggested that it is more likely to be performed by male speakers. In the British forum data analysed here, there was no correlation between performances of mock politeness and gender. However, there was a preference for labelling male mock polite behaviour as sarcastic, suggesting that the correlation is not between the academic concept of sarcasm and the male behaviour, but between the choice of metapragmatic label and gender of person described. The analysis draws on corpus linguistics, supplemented by survey data, to further describe the relationship between the metapragmatic labels sarcastic and bitchy and gender of the performer.

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女人是贱女人，男人是讽刺？调查性别和讽刺

在这篇论文中，我调查了性别与假礼貌之间关系的一个方面，特别关注讽刺行为。先前将讽刺作为一种学术概念的研究表明，它更有可能由男性演讲者进行。在这里分析的英国论坛数据中，模拟礼貌的表现与性别之间没有相关性。然而，人们倾向于将男性模拟礼貌行为标记为讽刺，这表明讽刺的学术概念与男性行为之间没有相关性，而是元语用标签的选择与所描述的人的性别之间的相关性。分析借鉴语料库语言学，辅以调查数据，进一步描述了讽刺和婊子等元语用标签与表演者性别之间的关系。