Empirical Support for the Gender-as-Culture Hypothesis: An Intercultural Analysis of Male/Female Language Differences.

By A. Mulac, J. Bradac, Pamela Gibbons. 2001

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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Explaining Gender‐Based Language Use: Effects of Gender Identity Salience on References to Emotion and Tentative Language in Intra‐ and Intergroup Contexts (2008, methodology): “Rooted in this rationale, the current experiment analyzed two language forms— tentative language and references to emotion—that previous research has found men and women to use differently at times ( Mulac, Bradac, & Gibbons, 2001 ).”
Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging (2006, result): “These differences confirm findings reported earlier with regard to age [8] and gender [1,5,7] on the basis of much more limited corpora, and introduce many new findings.”
Gender Bias in Machine Translation (2021, background): “7It has been largely debated whether gender-related differences are inherently biological or cultural and social products (Mulac et al., 2001).”
Winning words: Individual differences in linguistic style among U.S. presidential and vice presidential candidates (2007, background): “Additionally, compared to men, women tend to use more references to others, more positive feeling words, fewer articles, and fewer swear words (Lakoff, 1975; Mulac, Bradac, & Gibbons, 2001 ).”
Gender Differences in Language Use: An Analysis of 14,000 Text Samples (2008, background): “The result is also at odds with a review by Mulac et al. (2001), which cited findings that men used first-person singular more often.”
When Sarcasm Stings (2011, background): “As a result of these internalized, culturally guided maxims, males tend to be forward and competitive in their speech, whereas females spend more time hedging ( Mulac, Bradac, & Gibbons, 2001 ) and conversing in a supportive, relational, and polite manner ( Colley & Todd, 2002 ; Jorgensen, 1996 ).”
Gender and Leadership (2017, background): “has been described as more direct, succinct, and instrumental [94, 96].”
Online Language: The Role of Culture in Self-Expression and Self-Construal on Facebook (2010, background): “A meta-analysis conducted by Oyserman et al. (2002) supports the claim that Asian Americans are higher in interdependence.”
“Troubles Talk”: Effects of Gender and Gender-Typing (2003, background): “Much has been written about gendered communication patterns in both the popular press (e.g., Gray, 1992; Tannen, 1990) and the psychological literature (e.g., Leaper, 1991; Mulac, Bradac, & Gibbons, 2001 ).”
Psychological aspects of natural language. use: our words, our selves. (2003, background): “Gleser et al. (1959)—not listed in Mulac et al.'s (2001) review—reported significantly higher first person singular self-references for women in transcripts of oral narratives about an interesting or dramatic personal life experience.”