1. Corpus Linguistics and Gender

2. BNC data on use of thanks/ thank you

3. (Critical) Discourse Analysis

4. Critical Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis

5. Language features according to gender

7. Discussion

8. Corpus of call center calls

9. Example call (female agent; male caller)

10. Other language features worth analyzing for gender with corpora

13. 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”).

14. Data assembled by Michael Pearce from BNC (2008).

15. Data assembled by Michael Pearce from BNC (2008).

16. 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).

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

18. 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 ).

19. Discussion