About the Book: Using Corpora to Analyze Gender
Corpus linguistics uses specialist software to identify linguistic patterns in
large computerised collections of text - patterns which then must be interpreted
and explained by human researchers. This book critically explores how corpus
linguistics techniques can help analysis of language and gender by conducting a
number of case studies on topics which include: directives in spoken
conversations, changes in sexist and non-sexist language use over time, personal
adverts, press representation of gay men, and the ways that boys and girls are
constructed through language. The book thus covers both gendered usage (e.g. how
do males and females use language