Women and Men Talking About Men and Women in Greek
In: Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics ISBN: 9783319179476; (2015)
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This study examines the frequency and meaning distinctions of gender-related nouns for man, woman, boy and girl in Greek in approx. 600,000 words of spontaneous interaction between, mainly, young women and men, drawn from the Corpus of Greek Texts (CGT). Data has been annotated for speaker gender and age so that speaker preferences can be closely studied. The comparison of our findings from conversational data with our previous research in newspapers and magazines suggests that the former are generally much less stereotypical in the construction of gender identity and much less biased against women. A statistical analysis indicates that groups of speakers distinguished in terms of age and gender tend to talk more about their own members. Furthermore, Greek women in our data, as opposed to men, tend to talk about both men and women in terms of specific persons rather than as examples of their gender, in agreement with what has been found in other languages. On the basis of our discussion it is argued that corpus linguistics, despite its shortcomings, can be fruitfully applied to the study of gender in conversation, preferably in conjunction with micro-analytic approaches.
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Women and Men Talking About Men and Women in Greek
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Goutsos, Dionysis ; Fragaki, Georgia |
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Quelle: | Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics ISBN: 9783319179476; (2015) |
Veröffentlichung: | Springer International Publishing, 2015 |
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ISBN: | 978-3-319-17947-6 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-17948-3_5 |
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