Language and gender

By L. Thomas, Shân Wareing. 2004

Subfields: Linguistics, Social Sciences & Humanities

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Word embeddings quantify 100 years of gender and ethnic stereotypes (2017, background): “We note that the effects of the women’s movement, including on inclusive language, are well documented (Thorne, 1983; Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, 2003; Rosen, 2000; Evans, 2010; Hellinger and Bussmann, 2001); this work provides a new, quantitative way to measure the rate and extent of the change.”
Style Transfer Through Back-Translation (2018, background): “In sociolinguistics, gender is known to be one of the most important social categories driving language choice (Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, 2003; Lakoff and Bucholtz, 2004; Coates, 2015).”
Women’s Syntactic Resilience and Men’s Grammatical Luck: Gender-Bias in Part-of-Speech Tagging and Dependency Parsing (2019, background): “Sociolinguistic studies have shown that people use grammatical features to signal the speakers’ membership in a demographic group, with a focus on gender (Vigliocco and Franck, 1999; Mondorf, 2002; Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, 2013).”
Why Gender and Age Prediction from Tweets is Hard: Lessons from a Crowdsourcing Experiment (2014, background): “2 Related Work Gender Within sociolinguistics, studies on gender and language have a long history (Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, 2013).”
Women Are More Likely Than Men to Use Tentative Language, Aren’t They? A Meta-Analysis Testing for Gender Differences and Moderators (2011, background): “…style has received much attention over the past several decades in psychology (e.g., Aries, 1996; Leaper & Ayres, 2007; Thorne & Henley, 1975), linguistics (e.g., Talbot, 1998; Tannen, 1994), communications (e.g., Dindia & Canary, 2006; Wood, 2007), and feminist studies (e.g., Crawford, 1995).”
Bilingualism, gender, and ideology (2001, background): “…of gender has been attested in prosody, phonology, syntax, morphology, lexicon, communicative styles, narrative styles, strategic uses of silence, access to and use of discursive genres (Freed, 1995; Gal, 1991, 1992; Philips, Steele, & Tanz, 1987; for an up - to - date review, see Günthner, 1996).”
A Quantitative Analysis of Lexical Differences Between Genders in Telephone Conversations (2005, background): “Traditionally, these differences have been investigated in the ﬁelds of sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics, see for example (Coates, 1997), (Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, 2003) or http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/groups/gal/genre.htm for a comprehensive bibliography on language and gender.”
User Demographics and Language in an Implicit Social Network (2012, background): “Leaving aside the debate on the intricate relationship between language and gender (see Eckert & McConnell-Ginet (2003) for a thorough discussion of the subject), we simply demonstrate that a classi-ﬁer trained to predict the predominant gender in the user’s social environment, as approximated by…”
Gender Inference of Twitter Users in Non-English Contexts (2013, background): “…sociolinguistics (a subﬁeld of linguistics) has long studied the different ways men and women use language, especially in spontaneous speech (Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, 2003); recent work has begun to examine how language is used differently by men and women online as well (Bam-man et…”
Gender representation in Japanese EFL textbooks – a corpus study (2018, background): “Another form of linguistic sexism is the conventional word order of putting female terms after male terms, reflecting the secondary status of women (Amare 2007; Eckert and McConnell-Ginet 2013; Lee 2014; Lee and Collins 2010).”