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- Title
Gender Difference in the Employment of Various Stereotypes on Iranian English Weblogs.
- Authors
Barjesteh, Hamed; Vaseghi, Reza; Hashemi, Hanie; Pourshahian, Bahar; Kalajahi, Seyed Ali Rezvani
- Abstract
Cultural stereotype plays an essential role in developing and preserving gender differences, and that speech stereotypes in particular serve to characterize the way that native speakers perceive how males and females normally talk. This paper investigates stereotypes about on-line gender difference in Iranian English weblogs. It is hypothesized that men and women use different social and linguistic styles in on-line weblogs. The researchers quantitatively analyzed a number of English weblogs written by Iranians. One fourth of all used weblogs were managed by female and other weblogs were run by male. Results of analysis of data were presented in two parts. Comparisons are made between adult and teenager male female. The results indicated that the use of so-called gender-dependent features as 'hedges', 'tag question' mostly attributed to female language and 'harsh comments' mostly attributed to male language has been resistant to change among higher age group even in computer mediated communication, namely, weblog communication. However, it is witnessed a remarkable change on use of aforementioned features in language of teen.
- Subjects
STEREOTYPES; GENDER differences (Psychology); BLOGS; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Language in India, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 6, p99
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article