The business of a sentence is not only to describe some state of affairs but also to perform other kinds of speech acts like ordering, suggesting, asking, etc. Understanding the kind of action performed by a speaker who utters a sentence is a multimodal process which involves the computing of verbal and non-verbal information. This work aims at investigating if the understanding of a speech act is affected by the gender of the actor that produces the utterance in combination with a certain facial expression. Experimental data collected show that, as compared to men, women are less likely to be perceived as performers of orders and are more likely to be perceived as performers of questions. This result reveals a gender bias which reflects a process of women’s subordination according to which women are hardly considered as holding the hierarchical social position required for the correct execution of an order

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表演秩序：言语行为，面部表情和性别偏见

句子的工作不仅要描述某种事务状态，而且要执行其他类型的言语行为，例如命令，建议，询问等。了解说话者说出句子的行为是一个多模式过程，涉及语言和非语言信息的计算。这项工作旨在调查对言语行为的理解是否会受到与特定面部表情结合产生言语的演员性别的影响。收集的实验数据表明，与男性相比，女性不太可能被视为命令执行者，而更有可能被视为提问者。