two requests for research pointers

[Laurence Horn]

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.

(1)  One is planning to do a paper on sex differences related to the form
and content of contributions to internet newsgroups, chat groups, lists,
etc.  I've included the paper by Susan Herring et al. (Herring, Johnson &
DiBenedetto, "Participation in electronic discourse in a 'feminist' field"
) reprinted in the Coates Language and Gender reader in my course packet,
but I don't know what's been done on this topic in the last several years.

(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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