Yoshiko Matsumoto has argued that young women probably never

Yoshiko Matsumoto has argued that young women probably never used as many of the highly deferential forms as older women.This highly polite style is no doubt something that young women have been expected to “grow into”—after all,it is a sign not simply of femininity,but of maturity and refinement,and its use could be taken to indicate a change in the nature of one’s social relations as well.One might well imagine little girls using exceedingly polite forms when playing house or imitating older women—in a fashion analogous to little girls’ use of a high-pitched voice to do “teacher talk” or “mother talk” in role play.The fact that young Japanese women are using less deferential language is a sure sign of change—of social change and of linguistic change.But it is most certainly not a sign of the “masculization” of girls.In some instances,it may be a sign that girls are making the same claim to authority as boys and men,but that is very different from saying that they are trying to be “masculine.” Katsue Reynolds has argued that girls nowadays are using more assertive language strategies in order to be able to compete with boys in schools and out.Social change also brings not simply different positions for women and girls,but different relations to life stages,and adolescent girls are participating in new subcultural forms.Thus what may,to an older speaker,seem like “masculine” speech may seem to an adolescent like “liberated” or “hip” speech.60.According to Yoshiko Matsumoto,the linguistic behavior observed in today’s young women ________.A) may lead to changes in social relationsB) has been true of all past generationsC) is viewed as a sign of their maturityD) is a result of rapid social progresscet6 07年6月的一道题,我想问下您选的是什么,理由何在,