It is the natural order of things for humans to acquire beliefs and conform to stereotypes in an attempt to explain phenomena surrounding them. These mental constructs are known to have a pervasive influence on the way people think and act, and therefore are partly responsible for shaping our social reality. Thus, due to their impact, scientific exploration is needed to illuminate their nature and so enable humans to act upon these findings. Beliefs or stereotypes that are being studied in this particular research are those held about the differences in language use by men and women. Acknowledging that people in Bosnia and Herzegovina largely comply to traditional, patriarchal social norms, this study aims to elucidate the matter by investigating whether students of a private university situated in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, conform to widespread stereotypes about language and gender, women’s speech and men’s speech in particular, and whether males and females differ in conformity to the stereotypes.

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关于语言使用中性别差异的信念的探索

为了解释周围的现象，人类获得信念并遵循刻板印象是事物的自然秩序。众所周知，这些思想建构对人们的思维和行为方式产生了广泛的影响，因此对塑造我们的社会现实负有部分责任。因此，由于其影响，需要进行科学探索以阐明其性质，从而使人类能够根据这些发现采取行动。在这项特定研究中正在研究的信念或定型观念是关于男女在语言使用上的差异所持的观念或定型观念。承认波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的人民在很大程度上遵守传统的父权制社会规范，这项研究旨在通过调查是否位于波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那萨拉热窝的一所私立大学的学生来阐明这一问题，