Women, Language and Identity

Holmes, Janet

doi:10.1111/1467-9481.00012

Cited by 99 publications

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“…Language in Society 28: 2 (1999) 209 them, as suggested by Holmes 1997. It is also important, however, to call attention to the previously unacknowledged flexibility of identity formation.…”

Section: N D I D E N T I T Y P R a C T I C E Smentioning

confidence: 98%

‘Why be Normal?’: Language and Identity Practices in a Community of Nerd Girls

Bucholtz¹

2009

The New Sociolinguistics Reader

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Section: N D I D E N T I T Y P R a C T I C E Smentioning

confidence: 98%

‘Why be Normal?’: Language and Identity Practices in a Community of Nerd Girls

Bucholtz¹

2009

The New Sociolinguistics Reader

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“…For instance, when participants call attention to the use of the masculine pronoun because the sex of the subject is unknown, gender is explicitly relevant to be taken into account. Lakoff (1975), Holmes (1984) andCameron (1989). Lakoff (1975) states that women tend to use tag questions more often than men.…”

Section: In Proof Of a Male Vs Female Dichotomymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lakoff (1975) states that women tend to use tag questions more often than men. Holmes (1984) shows that tag questions are used by both men and women, however, women's use of them can be interpreted as facilitative or supportive. In Cameron's (1989) study, tag questions have ambiguous interpretations, as they seem to have more than one function simultaneously.…”

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Demystifying Women’s and Men’s Talk in Marital Interactions

Severo

Corona

2017

entrelinhas

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Former studies on gender and language sustained a male-female binary dichotomy (FISHMAN, 1978; FISHMAN, 1983; TANNEN, 1990;DE FRANCISCO, 1991). They stated that women tend to engage more in conversations in comparison to men, talk more and produce continuers such as 'mhm' to offer support to narratives. On the other hand, men tend not to engage in conversations as much as women, talk less and produce continuers in order to silence their interactional partners. Nonetheless, more recent research has rejected the idea of having a male-female dichotomy as a starting point to analyze language data. (SCHEGLOFF, 1997; WEATHERALL, 2000; SWANN, 2002; FREED, 2008). They believe gender is context bound and locally constructed. The objective of this study is to investigate women's and men's talk in marital interactions in Brazil from the perspective of talk-in-interaction studies. The analyzed data derive from recorded conversations among two heterosexual couples aged between 24 -32 years old who had been living together for 2-3 years by the time of the data collection. The data was transcribed according to Jefferson (1984) and analyzed considering four analytical categories proposed by De Francisco (1991) to verify their application: (a) production of second pair parts; (b) topic initiation; (c) use of continuers; and, (d) talking time. As claimed by more recent studies on language and gender, the results indicate that the interactional strategies used by the analyzed couples are not related to pre-established gender categories, but negotiated moment by moment in the interaction. Resumo: Estudos tradicionais sobre gênero e linguagem têm sustentado a dicotomia binária entre homens e mulheres. (FISHMAN, 1978; FISHMAN, 1983; TANNEN, 1990 e DE FRANCISCO, 1991. Eles afirmam que, em comparação aos homens, as mulheres tendem a falar mais e a produzir continuadores como "mhm", a fim de oferecer suporte às narrativas. Por outro lado, os homens demonstram um menor engajamento em conversas, tendem a falar menos e a produzir continuadores com o intuito de silenciar as suas parceiras interacionais. No entanto, pesquisas mais recentes rejeitam a dicotomia homem-mulher como ponto de partida para a análise de dados interacionais. (SCHEGLOFF, 1997; WEATHERALL, 2000; SWANN, 2002; FREED, 2008). Esses autores acreditam que gênero é localmente construído e atrelado ao contexto. O objetivo deste estudo é investigar interações matrimoniais no Brasil, pela perspectiva dos estudos de fala-em-interação. Os dados advêm de conversas gravadas entre dois casais heterossexuais, com idade entre 24 -32 anos e que, na época da coleta de dados, estavam casados há 2-3 anos. Os dados foram transcritos de acordo com Jefferson (1984) e analisados considerando quatro categorias analíticas propostas por De Francisco (1991), com o intuito de verificar a sua aplicação: a) produção da segunda parte do par adjacente; b) iniciação de um novo tópico; c) uso de continuadores; e, d) tempo de fala. Conforme apontado pelos estudos mais recentes na área de gêne...

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“…In recent years, sociolinguistic studies have investigated the influence of age [27], gender [17,27], class [24,22,23], and ethnicity [9,27]. All of them find that language use is highly influenced by these factors, although a statistical correlation is sometimes tenuous or absent.…”

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User Review Sites as a Resource for Large-Scale Sociolinguistic Studies

Hovy

Johannsen

Søgaard

2015

Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

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Sociolinguistic studies investigate the relation between language and extra-linguistic variables. This requires both representative text data and the associated socio-economic meta-data of the subjects. Traditionally, sociolinguistic studies use small samples of hand-curated data and metadata. This can lead to exaggerated or false conclusions. Using social media data offers a large-scale source of language data, but usually lacks reliable socio-economic meta-data. Our research aims to remedy both problems by exploring a large new data source, international review websites with user profiles. They provide more text data than manually collected studies, and more meta-data than most available social media text. We describe the data and present various pilot studies, illustrating the usefulness of this resource for sociolinguistic studies. Our approach can help generate new research hypotheses based on data-driven findings across several countries and languages.

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Women, Language and Identity

Cited by 99 publications

References 30 publications

‘Why be Normal?’: Language and Identity Practices in a Community of Nerd Girls

‘Why be Normal?’: Language and Identity Practices in a Community of Nerd Girls

Demystifying Women’s and Men’s Talk in Marital Interactions

User Review Sites as a Resource for Large-Scale Sociolinguistic Studies

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