[Corpora-List] language and gender

[Jean Hudson]

There's a wonderful text in the LLC that I've often used to open students' eyes (and minds) to the fact that many of the so-called "gender" differences are, of course, power differences. First they get to read up on the topic, then they get to analyze a few texts. The text I'm talking about is a conversation between two male colleagues (university lecturers) one of whom is clearly more senior than the other. Guess what the students conclude...?

(I can't remember which text it is, but it's early in the corpus. At some point there's a joke about contraceptives - should be easy to find by searching that word.)

Jean

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Jean Hudson
Luleå university of technology


>>> <R.M.Salkie at bton.ac.uk> 03/18/08 11:15 AM >>>
Has anyone ever transcribed some spoken data (or modified the recording
so that speakers' gender was not obvious), and then asked subjects to
judge which speakers were male and which were female?  I also have
students looking for topics in this area.  -- Raf Salkie, University of
Brighton

 

From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf
Of Harold Somers
Sent: 17 March 2008 13:14
To: Corpora
Subject: [Corpora-List] language and gender

 

Can anyone recommend any easily accessible corpus-based studies of
gender differences in language use? Some of my students are looking for
topics in this area for their assignment, which involves taking an
existing study and replicating it with parameters more or less changed
depending on what it is. Quite a few of them are interested in this
particular issue.

 

Harold Somers

 



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