Gendered Talk: Adjectives on Interior Design Blogs

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Gendered Talk: Adjectives on Interior Design Blogs
Original language description
The present paper examines whether gender makes a difference in the way interior design bloggers use adjectives in their articles. The starting point for the study is Lakoff’s (1975) claim that one of the characteristic features of women’s speech is the usage of empty adjectives, which has since been re-examined in different environments with varying results. The introductory part offers an overview of approaches to language and gender, and a summary of available research into gendered language with respect to adjectives. The practical part brings a qualitative study of four male and four female interior design blogs, analysing 3,000 words per blog. The acquired corpus of adjectives is categorised with special attention to evaluative adjectives. The results of the study confirm that gender is a matter of degree, not an absolute dichotomy.
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Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
English Discourse Studies in the Times of Change: Seventh Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English Brno, 12-13 September 2016
ISBN
9788021088214
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Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
41-54
Publisher name
Masaryk University
Place of publication
Brno
Event location
Brno
Event date
Jan 1, 2016
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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