| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| ·Sociolinguistics and Gender Issues | 第11-13页 |
| ·Sociolinguistics | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Definitions of Sex and Gender | 第12-13页 |
| ·Review of the Previous Research into Language and Gender | 第13-15页 |
| ·In the West | 第13-14页 |
| ·In China | 第14-15页 |
| ·Arrangement of the Thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Language, Culture and Gender | 第17-21页 |
| ·Language, Culture and Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis | 第17-18页 |
| ·Culture and Gender Culture | 第18-19页 |
| ·Language and Gender | 第19-21页 |
| ·Review of Theories on the Relationship between Language and Gender | 第19-20页 |
| ·Approach Adopted in This Thesis | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter Three Language Used by Women and Men | 第21-54页 |
| ·General Linguistic Differences | 第21-46页 |
| ·Gender Language Differences in Phonology | 第21-26页 |
| ·Pronunciation | 第21-25页 |
| ·Pitch | 第25-26页 |
| ·Gender Language Differences in Vocabulary | 第26-36页 |
| ·Women and Men Have Different Spheres of Vocabulary | 第26-27页 |
| ·Women Are More Familiar with Color Terms | 第27-28页 |
| ·Women Are Fond of Using More "Empty" Adjectives and Intensifier Adverbs | 第28-31页 |
| ·Women Tend to Use More Expletives | 第31-33页 |
| ·Women Tend to Use More Euphemisms and Formal Terminology While Men Tend to Use More Swear Words, Taboos and Slang | 第33-35页 |
| ·Cases with Chinese Women | 第35-36页 |
| ·Chinese Women Use 人家 "ren jia" (Person Family) to Refer to Themselves | 第35-36页 |
| ·Chinese Women Prefer to Use Sentence-Final Particles (SFPs) | 第36页 |
| ·Syntax | 第36-38页 |
| ·Tag Questions | 第36-38页 |
| ·Pragmatics | 第38-46页 |
| ·Who Speaks More? | 第38-39页 |
| ·Interruptions | 第39-41页 |
| ·Minimal Responses | 第41-42页 |
| ·Conversational Topics | 第42-44页 |
| ·Compliments | 第44-46页 |
| ·The Reasons for Gender Language Differences | 第46-49页 |
| ·Biological Reasons | 第46-47页 |
| ·Psychological Reasons | 第47-48页 |
| ·Social and Cultural Reasons | 第48-49页 |
| ·The Reasons for Gender Language Differences between English and Chinese | 第49-52页 |
| ·The Significance of the Gender Language Differences Research | 第52-54页 |
| Chapter Four Language Used about Women and Men | 第54-77页 |
| ·The Definition of Sexism | 第55页 |
| ·Sexism at the Lexical Level | 第55-60页 |
| ·Etymology | 第55-57页 |
| ·Morphology | 第57-59页 |
| ·Word Order | 第59-60页 |
| ·Sexism at the Semantic Level | 第60-64页 |
| ·Metaphors | 第60-61页 |
| ·Semantic Changes | 第61-64页 |
| ·Sexism at the Syntactical Level — Proverbs | 第64-66页 |
| ·Sexism at the Discourse Level | 第66-71页 |
| ·Sexism in Educational Materials | 第66-67页 |
| ·Sexism in Language Reference Materials | 第67-70页 |
| ·Sexism in the Mass Media | 第70-71页 |
| ·The studies of Sexism from Cultural and Social Perspectives | 第71-77页 |
| ·Cultural Reasons | 第71-74页 |
| ·Social Reasons | 第74-77页 |
| Chapter Five The Application of the Research to Foreign Language Teaching and Cross-cultural Communication | 第77-85页 |
| ·The Application of the Findings of the Research on Language Used by Women and Men to Foreign Language Teaching | 第77-80页 |
| ·The Application of the Findings of the Research on Language Used on Women and Men to Foreign Language Teaching | 第80-82页 |
| ·The Application of the Findings of the Research to Cross-cultural Communication | 第82-85页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第85-90页 |
| Bibliography | 第90-95页 |
