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Conversational Grammar- Feminine Grammar? A Sociopragmatic Corpus Study [PDF]

, 2010
One area in language and gender research that has so far received only little attention is the extent to which the sexes make use of what recent corpus research has termed “conversational grammar.” The author’s initial findings have suggested that the ...
Adolphs, Svenia, Aston, Guy, Biber, Douglas, Biber, Douglas, BNC Consortium, Oxford University Computing Services., Brown, Penelope, Bybee, Joan, Carter, Ron, Christoph Rühlemann, Coates, Jennifer., Coates, Jennifer., Fairclough, Norman., Goffman, Ervin., Günther, Ulrike., Halliday, M.A.K., Halliday, M.A.K., Holmes, Janet, Holmes, Janet., Hughes, Rebecca., Hunston, Susan, Kilgarriff, Adam., Leech, Geoffrey, Leech, Geoffrey., McEnery, Tony, Miller, Jim, Quirk, Randolph, Rühlemann, Christoph., Rühlemann, Christoph., Schmid, Hans-Jörg., Tannen, Deborah., Thompson, Geoff, Torgersen, Eivind, Tottie, Gunnel., Wong, Deanna., Xiao, Richard   +34 more
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Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey [PDF]

, 2016
Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature. Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) community in the social dimension of language.
de Jong, Franciska, Doğruöz, A. Seza, Nguyen, Dong, Rosé, Carolyn P.   +3 more
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The Linguistic Construction of Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in Arabic Grammar

Theory and Practice in Language Studies
Studies of gender have generally focused on the relationship between men and women within the context of social reality, rather than the construction of gender through language. This paper thus explores how language, specifically Arabic, contributes to the construction of gender and how the intersection of text and context shapes understandings of ...
Muassomah Muassomah, Irwan Abdullah, Imelda Wahyuni, Ali Burhan, Yelfi Dewi S, Wildana Wargadinata, Baedt Giri Mukhoddam Billah   +6 more
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“Mother-in-law, my, we know her!”

Akademisk Kvarter, 2013
Language constructs and reproduces different types of generalizations, for example concerning gender categories. By way of certain linguistic choices speakers construct or reproduce identities for men and women and other categories.
Lotte Dam
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The later development of an early-emerging system: the curious case of the Polish genitive [PDF]

, 2008
Eighty Polish children and adolescents aged from 6 to 18 participated in a nonce word inflection experiment testing their productivity with the two genitive masculine endings, -a and -u, and their sensitivity to the distributional and semantic factors ...
Dabrowska, Ewa
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Geschlechterunterschiede im Zentralabitur? Fairness von High-Stakes-Tests für Jungen und Mädchen im Fach Englisch in Nordrhein-Westfalen im Kontext der Educational Governance [PDF]

, 2016
The shift from decentralized to centralized A-level examinations (Abitur) was implemented in the German school system as a measure of Educational Governance in the last decade.
Lorenz, Ramona
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Names as resources for gendering

Nordisk Tidskrift för Socioonomastik
This article discusses personal names as a crucial linguistic resource for the construction of gender-related identities. It identifies and discusses trends in research on naming and gender, aiming to highlight key publications, point out changes over ...
Emilia Aldrin
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
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Queer Cultures in Digital Asia| “I Look at How They Write Their Bio and I Judge From There”: Language and Class Among Middle-Class Queer Filipino Digital Socialities in Manila

International Journal of Communication, 2023
Mobile digital media allow for multiple ways to present the digital self through linguistic and semiotic infrastructures to optimize the yield of responses from potential intimate connections.
Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza
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“Don’t Be a Son of a Bitch, Stand Up and Get What You Need”: Understanding Italian Young Adults’ Identity through Insults

The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography, 2019
This qualitative study, grounded in the ethnography of communication, aims to describe how Italian young adults construct their individual and group identity through the use of insults.
Eleonora Colzani
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