two requests for research pointers

[Amy L Sheldon]

Alma Graham has a chapter "The Making of a Nonsexist Dictionary" in Thorne
& Henley, 1975, _Language and Sex_ in which she did word counts in
children's books - pronoun counts for example - and found more references
to males than females. This was in the context of making some changes to
the _American Heritage Dictionary_.

> Miss Horn,
> 
> I'm going to do a research about language differences
> between sexes to, but mostly from a syntactic point of
> view and conversation analysis. So, if you would
> receive any suggestions about this (also in children
> books), could you please mail them to me also.
> Thanks in advance
> Eva Vanhoorne
> 
> 
> --- Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> a écrit:
> > Hi.  For two of the students in my Language, Sex &
> > Gender class I was
> > wondering if any listees could point me to relevant
> > recent research.
> >
> > (2)  Another student is interested in exploring
> > language and gender issues
> > in the context of children's books.  She's thinking
> > of a doing a
> > quantitative study and would like to know of any
> > earlier work in this
> > (rather broadly defined) domain.
> >
> > Thanks much for any suggestions you can provide.
> >
> > larry horn
> 
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