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Sex differences in English gossip rules 1 Contrary to popular belief, researchers have found that men gossip just as much as women. In one English study, both sexes devoted the same amount of conversation time (about 65 per cent) to social topics such as personal relationships; in another, the difference was found to be quite small, with gossip accounting for 55 per cent of male conversation time and 67 per cent of female time. As sport and leisure have been shown to occupy about ten per cent of conversation time, discussion of football could well account for the difference.

2 Men were certainly found to be no more likely than women to discuss “important” or “highbrow” subjects such as politics, work, art and cultural matters — except (and this was a striking difference) when women were present. On their own, men gossip, with no more than five per cent of conversation time devoted to non-social subjects such as work or politics. It is only in mixed-sex groups, where there are women to impress, that the proportion of male conversation time devoted to these more “highbrow” subjects increases dramatically, to between 15 and 20 per cent.

3In fact, recent research has revealed only one significant difference, in terms of content,

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英国人八卦规则中的性别差异

1 研究人员发现，与人们的普遍看法相反的是，男人聊八卦一点儿也不逊色于女人。英国的一项研究表明，男性和女性谈论社会话题——如人际关系——所花的时间相同（约65％）；另一项研究发现，男性和女性八卦的时间相差不大，聊八卦占男性交谈时间的55％，占女性的67％。有研究表明，谈论体育运动和休闲活动占人们交谈时间的10％，所以这一差异可能是由男性花更多的时间讨论足球而导致的。

2研究发现，男人并没有比女人花更多的时间去谈论诸如政治、工作、艺术和文化事务等“重要”或“高雅”的话题——除非有女人在场（女人在场时情况会有明显的不同）。女人不在场时，男人们就会聊八卦，而谈论如工作或政治等非社会性话题的时间不会超过5％。只有在男女都在场时，为了给女人留下好印象，男人谈论这些“高雅”话题的时间才会明显增加，达到15％–20％。

3事实上，最近的研究表明，男性和女性八卦内容的显著差异只有一个，那就是：男

between male and female gossip: Men spend much more time talking about themselves. Of the total time devoted to conversation about social relationships, men spend two thirds talking about their own relationships, while women only talk about themselves one third of the time.

4Despite these findings, the myth is still widely believed, particularly among males, that men spend their conversations “solving the world?s problems”, while the womenfolk gossip in the kitchen. In my focus groups and interviews, most English males initially claimed that they did not gossip, while most of the female readily admitted that they did. On further questioning, however, the difference turned out to be more a matter of semantics than practice: What the women were happy to call “gossip”, the men defined as “exchanging information”.

5 Clearly, there is a stigma attached to gossip among English males, an unwritten rule to the effect that, even if what one is doing is gossiping, it should be called something else. Perhaps even more important: It should sound like something else. In my gossip research, I found that the main difference between male and female gossip is that female gossip actually sounds like gossip. There seem to be three principal factors involved: the tone rule, the detail rule and the feedback rule. 人花更多的时间谈论自己。在谈论社会关系时，男人有三分之二的时间是在谈论自己的各种关系，而女性只用三分之一的时间来谈论自己。

4 即便如此，人们，尤其是男性，仍然普遍认为男人交谈是“解决世界问题”，而女人们则是在厨房里闲聊。在我做的焦点人群调查和访谈中，大多数英国男性最初都声称他们不聊八卦，而女性却很乐于承认自己聊八卦。然而，通过进一步追问，我发现两者的区别与其说体现在实践中，倒不如说是体现在语义层面上：男人把女人津津乐道的“八卦”称为“交流信息”。

5 显然，英国男性认为八卦是件不光彩的事情。有条不成文的规则可以说明这一点，即使一个人就是在聊八卦，也得把它说成是别的事情。或许更重要的是：八卦应该听起来不像是八卦。在对八卦的研究中，我发现男性和女性八卦时的主要区别在于：女人的八卦听起来更像八卦。这其中似乎涉及三个主要因素：语调规则、细节规则和反馈规则。

The tone rule

6The English women I interviewed all agreed that a particular tone of voice was considered appropriate for gossip. The gossip-tone should be high and quick, or sometimes a stage whisper, but always highly animated. “Gossip?s got to start with something like [quick, high-pitched, excited tone] …Oooh —Guess what? Guess what?” explained one woman, “or …Hey, listen, listen [quick, urgent stage whisper] —you know what I he ard?”Another told me: “You have to make it sound surprising or scandalous, even when it isn…t really. You?ll go, …Well, don?t tell anyone, but…? even when it?s not really that big of a secret.”

7 Many of the women complained that men failed to adopt the correct tone of voice, recounting items of gossip in the same flat, unemotional manner as any other piece of information, such that, as one woman sniffed, “You can?t even tell it?s gossip.” Which, of course, is exactly the impression the males wish to give.

The detail rule

8 Females also stressed the importance of detail in the telling of gossip, and again bemoaned the shortcomings of males in this matter, claiming that men “never know the details”. “Men just don?t do the he-said-she-said thing,” one inf ormant told me, 语调规则

6 我访谈的英国女性一致认为八卦时应使用特定的语调。八卦时的语调要高、要快，或有时听起来像故意让大家都能听见的悄悄话，但始终要活灵活现。一位女性解释道：“八卦得这样开始，比如[快、高亢、激动的语调]‘哦——你猜怎么着？你猜怎么着？’或‘嘿，听着，听着[快而急促的、让大家都能听见的悄悄话]——知道我听说什么了吗？’”另一位女性告诉我：“你必须让八卦听起来令人惊讶或震惊，即使实际上并非如此。你要这样说：‘哦，不要告诉任何人，但是……’即使那并不真的是多大的秘密。”

7 许多女人抱怨男人不会恰当地使用语调，在叙述八卦故事时语调平平、毫无感情色彩，就像在说任何其他事情一样。女人对此嗤之以鼻，“你甚至都听不出那是八卦。”当然，这恰恰是男人想给人留下的印象。

细节规则

8 女性还非常注重八卦时细节的重要性，并再次抱怨男性在这方面的不足，声称男人“永远不知道细节”。“男人就是不转述别人的话，”一位被调查者告诉我，“除非你真正知道他们说了什么，否则没什么意思。”另一个被调查者说：“女人往往会推测出更多的内

“and it?s no good unles s you actually know what people said.” Another said: “Women tend to speculate more… They?ll talk about why someone did something, give a history to the situation.” For women, this detailed speculation about possible motives and causes, requiring an exhaust ive raking over “history”, is a crucial element of gossip, as is detailed speculation about possible outcomes. English males find all this detail boring, irrelevant and, of course, unmanly.

The feedback rule

9Among English women, it is understood that to be a “good gossip” requires more than a lively tone and attention to detail: You also need a good audience, by which they mean appreciative listeners who give plenty of appropriate feedback. The feedback rule of female gossip requires that listeners be at least as animated and enthusiastic as speakers. The reasoning seems to be that this is only polite; the speaker has gone to the trouble of making the information sound surprising and scandalous, so the least one can do is to reciprocate by sounding suitably shocked. English men, according to my female informant, just don?t seem to have grasped this rule. They do not understand that “You are supposed to say …NO! Really?? and …Oh my GOD!?”

10 My female informants agreed, however, that a man who did respond in the approved 容……她们会谈论为什么某人会做某事，并追溯整件事情的始末。”对女人来说，对可能的动机和原因进行细致的推敲需要仔细梳理事情的始末，这和对可能出现的结果进行细致推测一样，是八卦的重要组成部分。英国男性觉得谈论所有这些细节都很无聊、无关紧要，当然也不男人。

反馈规则

9 英国女性认为“真正的八卦”不仅需要生动的语调和对细节的注重，还需要一个好的听众。她们指的是有欣赏力、并且很多时候能给予恰当回应的听众。女性八卦的反馈规则要求听众至少要和说话者一样活跃、兴致高涨。这可能只是出于礼貌。说话者已经费尽心思地让消息听起来更令人惊讶和震惊，所以听众至少应表现出适度的吃惊作为回应。据一位女性被调查者说，英国男人似乎没有掌握这一规则。他们不明白，“你应该说‘不会吧！真的吗？’和‘噢，我的上帝！’”

10 然而，我的女性被调查者认为，如果男性真的以女性认可的方式作出回应，那么他

female manner would sound inappropriately girly, or even disturbingly effeminate. Even the gay males I interviewed felt that the “NO! Really?” kind of response would be regarded as decidedly “camp”. The unwritten rules of English gossip etiquette do allow men to express shock or surprise when they hear a particularly juicy bit of gossip, but it is understood that a suitable expletive conveys such surprise in a more acceptably masculine fashion.们听起来会让人觉得女性化，甚至是让人极不舒服的娘娘腔。即使我采访的男同性恋者也认为“不会吧！真的吗？”这种反应绝对太“做作”。英国人八卦礼仪的不成文的规则确实允许男性在听到绘声绘色的八卦时表示出震惊或惊讶，但人们认为用一句恰当的脏话表达这种惊讶更容易让人接受，也更男人。

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