Essays about: "gender-based linguistic differences"

Found 3 essays containing the words gender-based linguistic differences.

  1. 1. The cross-linguistic influence on L2 learners' ability to use morphosyntactic cues predictively. : A psycholinguistic study on German grammatical gender acquisition by Greek native speakers.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

    Author : Mavra Mylona; [2023]
    Keywords : Grammatical gender; Prediction; Second Language Acquisition; Gender Assignment; Picture Selection;

    Abstract : German and Greek are both Indo-European languages that realize grammatical gender and indeed they have similar grammatical gender systems, they both realize three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter). They pose some similarities concerning gender agreement as well. However, the lexical gender between these two languages differs a lot. READ MORE

  2. 2. Gender and Culture in Newspaper Column Writing : A Quantitative Study of Male/Female and UK/US Differences in Pronoun Use

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Pia Huhtisaari; [2011]
    Keywords : Gender studies; first person pronouns; newspaper columns; sociolinguistics; corpus linguistics;

    Abstract : This study examines differences between male and female as well as UK and US authors in newspaper text, specifically column writing. Many studies have shown that women have a tendency to show greater involvement in text by using personal and subjective reference. READ MORE

  3. 3. Gender differences in Swedish students’ written texts and students’ identification of female and male language features

    University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Lina Gyllgård; [2007]
    Keywords : gender and language; gender-based linguistic differences; comparative study;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study was to investigate if any linguistic differences between the sexes can be found in Swedish students’ compositions in English. My aim was also to investigate what features students perceive to be typically male or female. READ MORE