Linguistic Features Of Gender Differences In Blog Communication

2021 ◽

pp. 161-177

Author(s):

Didem Koban Koç

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

English Language ◽

English Language Teaching ◽

The Other ◽

First Year ◽

Teaching Program ◽

Linguistic Features ◽

The Social ◽

Social Meanings

The present study investigated gender differences in the use of linguistic features as well as the social meanings attached to those differences. Academic essays, written by 44 (22 male, 22 female) first-year undergraduate students enrolled in the English Language Teaching program at a government university were analyzed with respect to the use of linguistic features (adjectives, empty adjectives, intensifiers, linking adverbials) as well as the number of words and sentences used by the students. The results showed that, in comparison to males, females used more adjectives, intensifiers, and words. Males, on the other hand, used more empty adjectives and linking adverbials than females. Based on the results, pedagogical implications are discussed, and recommendations are provided in order to increase teachers' awareness of gender differences and improve students' writing skills.

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GENDER DIFFERENCES OF STUDENTS’ WRITING ABILITY IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Journal of Languages and Language Teaching ◽

10.33394/jollt.v8i2.2314 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 153

Author(s):

Muhammad Saibani Wiyanto ◽

Panji Wisnu Asmorobangun

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

High School Students ◽

Foreign Language ◽

Speech Community ◽

Linguistic Features ◽

School Students ◽

Linguistic Feature ◽

Writing Ability ◽

Language Studies ◽

Significant Research

Language has an important role for every member of the speech community. The connection between language and society is recognized as the main interest of sociolinguistics. Nowadays, sociolinguistic has involved many significant research topics. One of them is the relationship between gender and language. Studies about gender differences have been conducted for many years, which also deals with the use of a language as a foreign language. For instance, studying English as a foreign language (EFL) among the nonnative speakers and its gender-sensitive investigation. The current article provides insights on gender differences among senior high school students with a focus on their writing ability. The purposes of this article were to find the linguistic feature that male and female students tend to use and to find out the gender differences reflected on the students writing ability. The article used a qualitative design with document analysis as the approach. The subject of this article was one class of X MIPA 2 at MAN 6 Jombang. The source of the data was students’ writings, while the data were all linguistics components of the students’ works. The data contain some types of linguistic features based on Mulac’s theory. This article found four linguistic features used by the students. It can be concluded that males often used locative feature and females often used a reference to quantity feature and “I” reference feature.

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Consecutive interpreting performance. Women and men compared

Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts ◽

10.1075/ttmc.00037.ver ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 292-306

Author(s):

Agostina Verdini

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Foreign Language ◽

Figurative Language ◽

Statistical Significance ◽

Female Students ◽

Male Students ◽

Linguistic Features ◽

Medical Field ◽

Idiomatic Expressions ◽

Consecutive Interpreting

Abstract Why are there so few male students attending the SSLMIT (Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators) in Forlì? Why are interpreters generally women? Is there a biological or social explanation linked to gender differences in speaking abilities? This study is intended to provide an experimental analysis of possible differences and similarities between male and female students of interpretation. On the basis of the theories put forward by Gender Studies and a series of neuro-linguistic investigations on simultaneous interpreters, it seems that women and men in fact differ in the way they speak, communicate and also in their practice of interpretation. For this study, the interpretation mode chosen is consecutive and the linguistic combination is from German into Italian; the sample is made up of 14 women and 14 men, whose first or second foreign language is German. The texts selected for the CI (Consecutive Interpreting) present different linguistic features, topic, reading pace and length. The first is a speech, which deals with economic-financial matters, shows a high density of numerical expressions and specific sectorial terms. The second text is an article about health, which presents a considerable number of idiomatic expressions and terms related to the medical field. The comparison between the deliveries made by the interpreters of both sexes and the analysis of the answers provided by the questionnaires handed out to the students show some remarkable gender differences. Overall, it seems that male interpreters perform better as far as numbers, dates, and economic vocabulary are concerned, while female interpreters are better at handling figurative language and words related to health. Consistent with this finding, women maintained a higher degree of fluency in the delivery of the second text, while men were more fluent in the first. Although these results do not claim to be of statistical significance, they show that differences related to sex may have an impact on the performance of interpreters.

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Gender Style Differences in Mediated Communication

Interpersonal Relations and Social Patterns in Communication Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-61520-827-2.ch007 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 121-141

Author(s):

Nancy A. Burrell ◽

Edward A. Mabry ◽

Mike Allen

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Online Communication ◽

Discussion Groups ◽

Communication Style ◽

Future Research ◽

Linguistic Features ◽

Mediated Communication ◽

Public Discussion ◽

Situational Contexts ◽

Language Styles

This study investigates gender differences in linguistic features of communication styles in the context of mixed public discussion groups in asynchronous, text-based CMC. The study evaluates gendered communication and language styles in situational contexts of CMC. A sample of 3000 messages from 30 Internet discussion groups was content analyzed. Results revealed gender differences in stylistic features used by discussion group participants and partially support the expectation that women’s online communication style is gendered. The data did not reveal an online communication style that significantly discriminated men’s communication. Findings point to the important role of gender enacted through language in the construction of social identity in the context of public discussion groups in CMC. Implications of this investigation and directions for the development of future research on gender in CMC are discussed.

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Russian genderlects and referential expressions

Language in Society ◽

10.1017/s0047404599003048 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 401-429 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

OLGA T. YOKOYAMA

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Structural Features ◽

Linguistic Features ◽

Discourse Model ◽

Referential Expressions ◽

Linguistic Behavior ◽

Gender Specific

The first goal of this article is to present a description of the linguistic features that distinguish the genderlects of Russian. Although there exist some data on interruptions and other kinds of gender-specific discourse behavior in Russian, they are not discussed here, because the variables that govern gender differences in linguistic behavior are too numerous and inconclusive, and Russian data that bear on such behavior remain at this point too meager. Rather, what is discussed here are the structural features of Russian genderlects. This focus leads to a second goal, a theoretical one: to explore how genderlect phenomena can be explained in the Transactional Discourse Model (TDM), a broadly generative, pragmatically based discourse model that is sensitive to the factors that control the occurrence of gender-specific features in speech.

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The Language and Identity of Agueda in Nick Joaquin's May Day Eve: An Analysis of Linguistic Features and Stances

E-Structural ◽

10.33633/es.v3i01.3524 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (01) ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Kay Tepait Juanillo ◽

Seregena Ruth Labastida-Martinez

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Social Behavior ◽

Personal Identity ◽

Qualitative Content Analysis ◽

The Philippines ◽

Language And Identity ◽

Linguistic Features ◽

Descriptive Research ◽

May Day

Language is an important device in the construction of an individual’s identity. However, Language not only identifies any particular individual but also sets its position inside the society. As a form of social behavior, language like other social behaviors, also distinguishes gender differences. This study investigates the linguistic features and the personal identity of Agueda in Nick Joaquin’s May Day Eve. This study can be used to apprehend how women were influenced by the society and the culture of the Philippines during the 1800s. The researchers use Lakoff’s Theory of Linguistic Features, and the Indexicality Principle by Bucholtz and Hall (2005) to analyze the language and identity of Agueda. Qualitative Content Analysis and descriptive research design are used to analyze thoroughly the utterances of Agueda which consist of linguistic features and stances. Based on the linguistic features and the stances analyzed, Agueda uses emphatic stress more to show assertiveness through her utterances, she also uses disalignment more, and she likes to position herself along the affective scale. The result of the study shows that Agueda is an assertive and strong willed young woman, who likes to do whatever she wants. Her utterances also show how resentful she has become after her marriage with Badoy. The conclusion can be drawn that language is an important factor in creating an identity of a person, and this identity can be formed through the stances and linguistic features, which are greatly affected by the society, culture, and people that surround an individual.

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Gender-Specific Features in the Speech of Russian Germans of Kirov Region

Nizhny Novgorod Linguistics University Bulletin ◽

10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2020-49-1-24-36 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 24-36

Author(s):

Olga Baykova ◽

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Natalya Kryukova ◽

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Communication Styles ◽

Grammatical Structure ◽

Linguistic Features ◽

Male And Female ◽

Gender Group ◽

Women's Speech ◽

Female Speech ◽

Russian Germans ◽

The Impact

The article will be of interest to researchers involved in studying the characteristics of male and female speech since it examines gender differences in the speech of Russian Germans living in the territory of the Kirov region. The relevance of this study is enhanced by the sociolinguistic significance of island dialectology, associated with studying speech behavior of a German ethnic community that exists in isolation from the parent ethnic group. The study seeks to analyze gender differences in the speech of Russian Germans living in the Kirov region which add to other socio-demographic factors that affect the speech behavior of Russian Germans in the region. The authors discuss the impact of gender on the linguistic competence of the older generation of Russian Germans in the Kirov region as exemplified by the analyzed stories of eleven respondents, Russian Germans of the first, older subgroup (10 women and 9 men aged 70 to 95 years) on the topic “Deportation of Volga and Ukraine Germans into the Kirov Region.” By using direct observation, audio speech recording as well as content and functional analysis of male and female speech, it was demonstrated that the speech of each gender group was characterized by specific linguistic and extra-linguistic features. For instance, one characteristic difference between male and female communication was the ability of the women to quickly switch from one topic to another. In terms of linguistic characteristics of men’s and women’s speech, there were clear differences in the grammatical structure of sentences, while extra-linguistic features included psychological differences in speech characteristics typical of a particular gender group, different communication styles as well as different goals that men and women seemed to pursue when entering into a conversation. However, such differences cannot be considered to be essential characteristics of speech of all women or all men: in our opinion, it would be more correct to class them as certain gender features of male and female speech.

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