Essays about: "GENDER BASED LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES"

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  1. 1. The Portrayal of Incel Violence : A Thematical Comparative Case Study of US and Swedish Media’s Presentation on Incel Attacks

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Amanda Nordberg; [2023]
    Keywords : Incel; media; extremism; masculinity crisis; gender-based terrorism;

    Abstract : The research conducted in this thesis will focus on incels’ violence, the media coverage of it, and incels’ debatable connection to extremism. Using a comparative case study on incel violence enables an examination of how media presents the coverage, identifying similarities, differences, and patterns from a transnational perspective by analyzing news articles from two selected newspapers in the US and two newspapers from Sweden over a specific period. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. A Study on the Perception of Feedback with Varying Sentiment Generated Using a Large Language Model

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Josefina Häkkinen; Zaina Ramadan; [2023]
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    Abstract : Providing high-quality feedback for students is often a time-consuming task that the teaching staff does not have the resources for. Utilizing automatically generated feedback is a potential solution to this problem. When studying automated feedback, it is common to evaluate feedback in regard to students’ performance. READ MORE

  5. 4. Teachers' Beliefs in promoting Gender Awareness using Fiction

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

    Author : Ann-Kathrin Mai; Jessica Ljung; [2022]
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    Abstract : Every generation views the world through different lenses, and teachers must continuously expand their horizons to accommodate paradigm shifts. To better align with the current concept of gender, Skolverket is updating the curriculum as of July 1st, 2022, and proposes that all language teaching is well suited for this purpose. READ MORE

  6. 5. Gender differences in the usage of mild versus strong swearwords and their pre-modifying adjectives : An analysis of findings in the BNC2014

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Katerina Swensson Doschoris; [2022]
    Keywords : Swearing; gender differences; pre-modifying adjectives; British National Corpus; sociolinguistics;

    Abstract : This essay presents a study on gender differences with a focus on mild and strong swearwords and their pre-modifying adjectives when describing a person, based on findings from the BNC2014. Previous research implies that men and women use different types of swearwords, suggesting that men tend to use stronger language than women. READ MORE