Corpus Linguistics and Gender

BNC data on use of thanks/ thank you

(Critical) Discourse Analysis

Critical Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis

Language features according to gender

Discussion

Corpus of call center calls

Example call (female agent; male caller)

Other language features worth analyzing for gender with corpora

From BNC, study by Pearce 2008, p From BNC, study by Pearce 2008, p. 14 («Investigating the collocational behaviour of MAN and WOMAN in the BNC using Sketch Engine”).

Data assembled by Michael Pearce from BNC (2008).

Data assembled by Michael Pearce from BNC (2008).

Hedges LCSWE = Longman Corpus of Spoken and Written English. This slide describes the distribution of hedges in English generally (from the “Conversation” section of the LCSWE corpus), not broken down by gender. Data assembled by Eric Friginal (2009).

Example: hedges LCSWE  Longman Corpus of Spoken and Written English

Corpus comparison between spontaneous conversation and a sit-com vague reference (e.g., stuff , thing , or things ), coordination tags (e.g., and stuff like that , or something like that ), and hedges (e.g., kind of , sort of ).

Discussion