00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217612333242 Buklod 20230619154520.0 m go j ta 130916s2014 nyua rb |001 0|eng d 9781441108777 (pb) (iLib)UPD-00260806498 DLC DMLS rda eng DMLUC P 120 S48 B35 2014 Baker, Paul 1972- author. Using corpora to analyze gender Paul Baker. London Bloomsbury [2014] 228 pages illustrations 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index. 1. Introduction -- 2. Exploring gendered directives in a spoken corpus. -- 3. Corpus-driven research: going beyond "do women say "lovely" more than men?" -- 4. Examining changes in (non-) sexist language over time: where are all the spokeswomen? Frequency-based analysis -- 5. Identifying discourses in corpora: why there was nothing natural about the Daily Mail's representation of gay men -- 6. Gender representation via word sketches: boys grin, girls giggle. -- 7. Combining approaches - the case of personal adverts -- 8. Conclusion. "Corpus linguistics uses specialist software to identify linguistic patterns in large computerized collections of text - patterns which then must be interpreted and explained by human researchers. This book critically explores how corpus linguistics techniques can help analysis of language and gender by conducting a number of case studies on topics which include: directives in spoken conversations, changes in sexist and non-sexist language use over time, personal adverts, press representation of gay men, and the ways that boys and girls are constructed through language. The book thus covers both gendered usage (e.g. how do males and females use language differently, or not, from each other), and gendered representations (e.g. in what ways are males and females written or spoken about). Additionally, the book shows ways that readers can either explore their own hypotheses, or approach the corpus from a "naive" position, letting the data drive their analysis from the outset. The book covers a range of techniques and measures including frequencies, keywords, collocations, dispersion, word sketches, downsizing and triangulation, all in an accessible style"-- Provided by publisher. Grammar, Comparative and general Gender. Language and languages Sex differences. Language and sex Research Methodology. Corpora (Linguistics) Book FO UPD DMLS P 120 S48 B35 2014 Book