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Gendered language on internet chat
rooms
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Chat Rooms
• Chat rooms are essentially a virtual conference room where online users can write comments at the same time
• Messages appear in a feed that everyone in the chat room can read and respond to
• Gives you the ability to communicate with multiple people, which differentiates from instant messaging, mainly aimed at ono-on-one communication
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Identifying Gender
• Social networking sites have altered our lives in many ways, including our manner of communication and self-expression
• Impact of gender on linguistic choices of people while chatting• Lakoff (1975) claimed that women use more colour words,
submissive language and tag questions as a result of their insecurity in society which is reflected in social mediums of communication
• Men, according to Fishman (1983), respond minimally as they are socialised that male speech is more dominant where they should wait for women to prompt them
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But is this the case?
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Would you expect this comment to have been written by a man or a woman?
Why?
• As Lakoff suggests in her Deficit Model, women are more submissive to norms and avoid coarse language
• Here the repeated use of swear words suggests that this is therefore likely to be a man typing as he is not afraid to risk his reputation in society
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Would you expect this reply to have been written by a man or a woman?
Why?
• As Lakoff states, women tend to be more apologetic so ‘sorry’ makes us think that this is a woman
• The repeated use of kisses suggest approachability and demonstrate the loving, perhaps more gentle personality associated with women
• Jane Pilkington (1992) believes that women in same sex conversations use positive politeness strategies
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Would you expect this comment to have been written by a man or a woman?
Why?
• Men tend to adhere to ‘lad’ culture and through the use of the term of endearment ‘bud’ usually associated with male speech, it stereotypically suggests that this is a man
• Similarly, ‘beer’ is stereotypically a man’s drink and ‘one too many’ suggests getting drunk which a woman perhaps wouldn’t be so flippant about sharing if it was to be viewed publically
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As text speak is used alongside technology as it is quicker and easier, both men and women, from what I have found, seem to express opinions and ask questions very similarly in short-hand, brief ways, therefore making it difficult to differentiate between a man and a woman’s comment
However, as seen on the previous slides, habits associated with the different genders can’t help but emerge online thus making it easy to tell the gender of a writer through their vocabulary, sentence length and use of punctuation