scholarly journals Frequency of Adjectives in Male and Female Speech in the Contemporary Television Drama Series "Homeland"

Tertium ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Marian Żmigrodzki
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Language Differences ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
Female Speech ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Tv Show ◽  
Gender Specific ◽  
Language Corpus

The paper addresses issues related to language and gender, and discusses research on the frequency of adjectives in language of male and female characters in a TV drama series “Homeland”. The empirical part of the study uses as its theoretical background the classic works in the field (Lakoff 1975; Butler 1990; Meyerhoff 2006), which identify gender specific language features and define factors that determine male-female language differences. The research was conducted manually, with minor help of electronic tools, on a personally created language corpus consisting of dialogue lines from the TV show. The results clearly show that the frequency of adjectives in female speech is higher than in male speech in the studied corpus

scholarly journals Language and Gender in Political Discourse

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2 (18)) ◽  
pp. 62-70
Author(s):  
Anna Knyazyan ◽  
Varduhi Hakobyan
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
Female Politicians ◽  
Female Speech ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women's Role

This article covers the problem of male and female speech differences in political discourse. Male and female politicians use different language tools in order to make the message comprehensible to the listener. Most studies of male and female language reveal women as considerably less influential than men. However, our study shows that women’s role in political activity becomes increasingly important and deserves higher attention. The analysis of the speeches of political leaders gives us the idea that there are several differences which are notable in verbal communication when what we are after is gender. The article aims to identify male and female linguistic features in the speeches of two political leaders: Donald J. Trump and Hillary R. Clinton.

scholarly journals Expression of Language and Gender in the Movie “Imperfect: Karier, Cinta & Timbangan” (Sociolinguistic Studies)

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-200
Author(s):  
Fauziyah Kurniawati
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Language Differences ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Language Characteristics

The dialogues used by the male and female main character in the movie "Imperfect: Karier, Cinta & Timbangan" has many different language characteristics. This research aims to elaborate the expression of language characteristics of main male and female characters in the movie based on Qi Pan's theory and define the socio-cultural factors behind using these language characteristics. This research was qualitative descriptive research. The data source was the movie’s script of "Imperfect: Karier, Cinta & Timbangan." To collect data, the researcher used watching, listening, and writing techniques. Then, the data were analyzed using the textual analysis method. The results revealed that (a) the main female character uses 11 language characteristics according to Qi Pan's theory in dialogue. In contrast, the main male character does not use these language characteristics. Only hypercorrection characteristics are not used in both speeches, and (b) language differences in characters' speeches are influenced by socio-cultural factors that shape their personalities in the movie, creating gender stereotypes that appear in both genders based on their characters. This research represents an expression and relevance between language and gender, which can be found in real life and literary works, one of which is elaborated through Indonesian movie media.

How Gender of Ex-Offenders Influences Access to Employment Opportunities

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca L. Richardson ◽  
Shawn M. Flower
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
The Body ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Barriers To Employment ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Specific ◽  
Specific Barriers

While both male and female ex-offenders face many of the same difficulties while finding employment, some barriers are unique to either males or females, or are more problematic for one gender. The purpose of this article is to review gender differences in barriers to employment for ex-offenders with disabilities. There is little research on disabilities and offending populations – what exists explores the prevalence of mental health, substance abuse, and intellectual or developmental disabilities (James & Glaze, 2006; National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, 2010). Further, the body of research that examines barriers to employment specifically for ex-offenders with disabilities is extremely limited. Consequently, this review will explicitly reference ex-offenders with disabilities where possible, but generalizations about this justice-involved population are required. The authors hypothesize that many of the existing gender-neutral and gender-specific barriers to employment are exacerbated by the presence of a disability or disabilities. Disadvantages for ex-offenders are compounded in a fashion that makes finding a job a daunting task.

scholarly journals Sticky Captions: Genre-internal Variation in Print-based Ad Translating

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 471-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Sidiropoulou
Keyword(s):  
Social Values ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Greek Translation ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Target Environment ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Internal Variation ◽  
Gender Specific

Abstract The study shows that source and target versions of ads can accurately mirror linguistic preference across source and target environments. It points to culture-specific, genre-specific and gender-specific linguistic preference imprinted in ad discourses. It examines genre-internal variation in print-based advertising in the English-Greek translation paradigm. It explores variation in discursive preference manifested in target versions of business-oriented and cosmetics ads, with a view to indicating that male and female audiences are attributed different social needs in the target environment. If ST/TTs of ads reflect culture-specific hierarchies of deeply felt needs in a society, a lot can be concluded about the immense power of advertising to register fine distinctions with respect to cultural versions of identities, to mould cultural audiences’ expectations and to create new social values in target environments.

scholarly journals THE BOUNDARIES OF LANGUAGE AND GENDER REVISITED: PERFORMING GENDER IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio García Gómez ◽  
Fátima Garrido Pozo
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
Politeness Strategies ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Female Teenagers

Abstract: Social networks have been evolving throughout time not just as a tool to socialize or interact, but as a fundamental system that helps people develop their lives. Among social network users, adolescents are, without any doubt, those who are more dependent on technology in general terms and social media in particular. They not only use it to connect to each other, but also to update and to evaluate what they hear, read and do both on- and offline. This research uses Facebook posts from British and Spanish male and female teenagers in order to explore these teenagers’ practices of social networking. More precisely, the main aim of the current study is not only to analyse similarities and differences in the ways male and female teenagers communicate online, but also to uncover the different linguistic strategies they use to relate to others. The analysis gives evidence that there is a fine line in the use of positive and negative politeness strategies according to gender when negotiating conversational topics online. Título en español: “Revisión de las fronteras entre Lengua y Género: La performatividad de género en redes sociales”.Resumen: Las redes sociales han evolucionado a lo largo del tiempo. De este modo, han dejado de ser utilizadas exclusivamente como una herramienta de socialización e interacción y han pasado a entenderse como un sistema fundamental que ayuda a las personas a desarrollar sus propias vidas. Entre los usuarios de redes sociales, los adolescentes son, sin lugar a dudas, aquellos que son más dependientes de las nuevas tecnologías en general y de las redes sociales en concreto. No sólo las utilizan para estar en contacto con otras personas, sino que también las usan para estar al día y evaluar aquello que oyen, leen y hacen tanto en línea como fuera de línea. La presente investigación utiliza mensajes publicados en el muro de Facebook por adolescentes británic@s y español@s con el objeto de explorar sus prácticas en esta red social. En concreto, este estudio tiene como objetivo no sólo analizar las diferencias y similitudes en la(s) forma(s) que est@s adolescentes se comunican en línea, sino también descubrir las diferentes estrategias lingüísticas que usan para relacionarse con otros usuarios. El análisis prueba que hay una delgada línea en el uso de las estrategias de cortesía positiva y negativa en lo que respecta al género de los usuarios mientras tratan distintos temas en línea.

scholarly journals At komme til magten - magt, køn og kønnede aktører i det politiske felt

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-43
Author(s):  
Lis Højgaard
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Gender And Politics ◽  
Political Field ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Politicians ◽  
Political Hierarchy ◽  
Gendered Patterns ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Political Praxis ◽  
Gender Specific

Obtaining Power – power, gender and gendered actors in the political arena The gendering of politics in Denmark is no longer manifested in large differences in representation in important political positions or in unambiguous gender specific ways of doing politics or of climbing the political hierarchy. A discourse analysis of interviews with top male and female politicians shows that gender and political are woven together in multifarious ways, while revealing gendered patterns in discursive practices. There are no sharp differences in male and female politicians’ discourses on doing politics, on obtaining top positions in the political hierarchy or on gender and politics. Gendered patterns appear in the way male and female politicians combine discourses on how to get power and in their discourses on the meaning of gender in politics. The interviews revealed three discourses on how to get power: the fight, the party community and the personal stake. These represent distinct ways of characterizing the processes involved in becoming politically powerful. The interviews also revealed two main discourses on the meaning of gender: gender as an explicitly important dimension of political praxis, and gender as unimportant in relation to political praxis. The gendered agents combine these discourses in different ways, which opens different spaces of action and nego-tiation as well as different possibilities for positioning in the political field, possibilities that are reflected by a meta-discourse expressing processes of inclusion and exclusion in the field of politics.

scholarly journals Directive forms Expressed by Male and Female Respondents in Different Situational Contexts

Humaniora ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Euodia Inge Gavenila ◽  
Yohanes Arsa ◽  
Truly Almendo Pasaribu
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
English Language Education ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
Situational Contexts ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

This research intended to explore the relationship between language and gender by answering two research questions. First, it was how male and female respondents expressed directive forms. Second, it was what the social factors that influenced the choice of directive forms were. The two issues were considered urgent because gender was a variable that determined how people used language, including directive forms. Data were collected by distributing offline open-ended questionnaires to 18 students from the 2015-2017 batch of the English Language Education Study Program (ELESP) of Sanata Dharma University. The results show that to some extent females and males express directive forms differently. Men tend to be direct in expressing directive messages, while women use interrogative and declarative forms in delivering the messages since these forms are considered as more polite and less direct. Women tend to save their faces by using more indirect or polite forms because they avoid being considered impolite. Then, social class, the relationship between participants, and formality alsoinfluence the use of directive forms. 

scholarly journals How Women and Men Pee: Assessing Gender-Specific Urination Practices for a Comfortable Toilet Experience

2021 ◽  
pp. 106480462110440
Author(s):  
Vasco Schelbert ◽  
Lena Kriwanek ◽  
S. Ramesh Sakthivel ◽  
Lotte Kristoferitsch ◽  
Harald Gründl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Separation Efficiency ◽  
Resource Recovery ◽  
User Friendliness ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Urine ◽  
Urine Separation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Specific

NoMix toilets separate urine and feces at the source and are a promising resource recovery technology. However, design issues hamper the transformation from unattractive to aspirational products. Little effort has been done to design toilets that account for physiological differences, leading to adverse effects on user-friendliness and urine separation efficiency. We used infrared recordings to assess gender-specific urination practices. Based on field data, we developed the Urinator, a simple device that allows simulating male and female urine streams. This supports engineers in developing more user- and gender-friendly and reuse-oriented sanitation technologies.

Femininity in mixed-sex talk and intercultural communication

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-483
Author(s):  
Hiroko Itakura
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
Japanese Male ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Asian Languages ◽  
Gender Specific ◽  
Sex Talk

Previous studies of language and gender discuss how men and women use gender-specific conversational styles mainly in relation to English, whereas similar studies for Asian languages remain comparatively few. Moreover, little is known about gender and conversational styles during intercultural communication. This paper explores whether speakers follow similar norms of politeness in mixed-sex talk in their L1 and in intercultural conversations in L2 English, and if femininities are modified, what factors may be involved. It reports findings from a case study of a Japanese female’s conversations with a Japanese male in Japanese and with three male L2 English speakers. It suggests that femininities might be modified to become more ‘immodest’ in English due to factors such as speakers’ varying level of adherence to native cultural norms in L1 and in L2 contexts and the male interlocutors’ ethnicity. For example, female speakers who adhere to native cultural norms in L1 conversations may see L2 intercultural contexts as opportunities to create non-traditional femininities, especially when there is no male interlocutor with shared ethnicity. The construction of L2 femininities may also be shaped by linguistic factors such as L2 proficiency or systemic differences between the two languages.

scholarly journals Dominant and Gender-Specific Tendencies in the Use of Discourse Markers: Insights from EFL Learners

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahboobeh Tavakoli ◽  
Amin Karimnia
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Specific

This study followed two objectives: it primarily investigated the types of discourse markers (DMs) used in thespoken language of Iranian advanced EFL learners, and then explored the possible impact of gender on theparticipants’ use of DMs. To this end, 40 male and female EFL learners selected from an English language instituteparticipated in this study. The data were gathered through class observations. The researchers used Fraser’staxonomy of DMs and Fung’s category of interpersonal DMs as the theoretical framework of the study. To analyzethe data descriptive and inferential statistics were used. Results of the frequency test revealed that “and” was themost commonly used elaborative DM, whereas “but” was the most frequent contrastive DM. “Because” and “by theway” were respectively the only reason and topic-related DMs used by the participants, while “sure” was the mostfrequent interpersonal DM. In addition, results of the chi-square test revealed that learners significantly employedinterpersonal DMs more than the other sub-classes of DMs. Concerning the role of gender in the use of DMs, resultsdemonstrated that females significantly used more DMs compared with the males.

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