Some corpus-based studies of language and gender



Some corpus-based studies of language and gender

(Note: this list has been generated by a bibliographic searches; I am not familiar with all these studies, so this is not a “Recommended reading” list: Have a look at the articles for yourselves, and make your own judgment)

Biber, D. & Burges, J. (2001) ‘Historical shifts in the language of women and men: gender differences in dramatic dialogue’ in D. Biber & S. Conrad (eds) Variation in English: Multi-Dimensional Studies. London: Longman, pp 157-170.



Holmes, J. (2001) ‘A corpus based view of gender in New Zealand English’. In M. Hellinger & H. Bussman (eds) Gender Across Languages. The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men. Vol 1. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp 115-136.

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McEnery, T., Baker, P & Hardie, A. (2000) ‘Swearing and Abuse in modern British English’ In B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk & J. Melia PALC 99 Practical Applications in Language Corpora. Peter Lang.

Pearce, M. (2008) ‘Investigating the collocational behaviour of MAN and WOMAN in the British National Corpus using Sketch Engine’. Corpora 3.1.

Rayson, P., Leech, G., & Hodges, M. (1997) ‘Social differentiation in the use of English vocabulary: some analyses of the conversational component of the British National Corpus’ International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2: 133-150.

Rey, J. M. (2001) ‘Changing gender roles in popular culture: Dialogue in Star Trek episodes from 1966 to 1993’, in D. Biber & S. Conrad (eds) Variation in English: Multi-Dimensional Studies. London: Longman, pp 138-156.

Schmid, H.-J. (2003) ‘Do women and men really live in different cultures? Evidence from the BNC.’ In Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B. and Melia, P. J. (eds). Lodz Studies in Language 8: Corpus Linguistics by the Lune. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pp. 185-221.

Shalom, C. (1997) ‘That great supermarket of desire: attributes of the desired other in personal advertisements’, in Harvey, K. & Shalom, C. (eds.) Language and Desire, London: Routledge, pp. 186-203.

Sigley, R. & Holmes, J. (2002) ‘Girl-watching in corpora of English.’ Journal of English Linguistics 30, 2: 138-157.

The following resulted from searching with "corpus-based studies of gender differences in language use"

Yates, S. 1997. Gender, identity and CMC. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 13:4 pp.281-290

Bortfeld H, Leon S, Bloom J, Schober M, Brennan S. 2001.

Disfluency Rates in Conversation: Effects of Age, Relationship, Topic, Role, and Gender. Language and Speech. 44:2, pp.123-147

Palander-Collin M. 1999. Male and female styles in 17th century

correspondence. Language Variation and Change. 11, pp.123-141

Bowker L. 2001. Terminology and gender sensitivity: A corpus-based study of the LSP of infertility. Language in Society. 30, pp.589-610

Fahy P. 2002. Use of Linguistic Qualifiers and Intensifiers in a Computer Conference. American Journal of Distance Education. 16:1, pp.5-22

Conrad S. 1999. The importance of corpus-based research for language teachers. System. 27:1, pp.1-18

Argamon S, Koppel M, Fine J, Shimoni AR. 2003. Gender, Genre, and Writing Style in Formal Written Texts. Text , 23(3)



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