Essays about: "titles of social rank"

Found 2 essays containing the words titles of social rank.

  1. 1. 'Men in Grey Suits': Androcentric Language in the House of Commons : A Corpus-Assisted Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Pauline Alkenäs; [2022]
    Keywords : Androcentrism; House of Commons; Critical Discourse Analysis; CDA; Hansard at Huddersfield Corpus; Male Bias;

    Abstract : Whilst the number of women in the British Parliament increases in line with social progress towards gender equality, androcentric language use in the House of Commons prevails and perpetuates a harmful outdated hierarchical order of gender. The aims of this study are two-fold, (1) to gain insight into how androcentric occupational titles are used to negotiate the hierarchical structure of the Chamber, (2) to explore how MPs’ male bias is reflected by their use of androcentric generic nouns. READ MORE

  3. 2. Tudor and Stuart England and the Significance of Adjectives : A Corpus Analysis of Adjectival Modification, Gender Perspectives and Mutual Information Regarding Titles of Social Rank Used in Tudor and Stuart England

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Niclas Vikström; [2015]
    Keywords : Historical sociolinguistics; corpus linguistics; variationist theory; Renaissance English; Late Middle and Early Modern English; titles of social rank; Tudor and Stuart England; the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler CEECS ; adjectival modification; semantic domains; collocations; type token ratios; gender; mutual information.;

    Abstract : The aim of the present study has been to investigate how titles of social rank used in Tudor and Stuart England are modified by attributive adjectives in pre-adjacent position and the implications that become possible to observe. Using the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler (CEECS) the present work set out to examine adjectival modification, gender perspectives and MI (Mutual Information) scores in order to gain a deeper understanding of how and why titles were modified in certain ways. READ MORE