A computer-assisted investigation of gender-related idiolect in Octavio Paz and Rosario Castellanos

Irizarry, Estelle

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“…One difficulty in answering the question about the influence of gender on writing styles is that, although many analyses of gender differences in literary discourse have found that women's creative writing differs at least to some extent from men's writing, especially in choice of topic and topic presentation (Izarray, 1992;Hiatt, 1977;Ormerod et al, 1995), other studies have suggested that differences in women's and men's speech may be caused by other factors (Eckert, 1998;O'Barr and Atkins, 1998). In fact, some scholars believe that differences between men and women exist only because of sociological factors, where women's behavior is indicative of any group that is powerless or a minority (Cameron, 1992).…”

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“…She found that men's and women's styles differed in sentence length, use of punctuation marks, parallelism, use of adverbs, similes, and various rhetorical devices. Her research has led to several other studies including a computational analysis that found that the literary works of Octavio Paz and Rosario Castellanos respectively contained typical characteristics of male and female speech (Izarray, 1992). Following this tradition, Rey (1994) provides a historical perspective to male and female discourse by quantitatively analyzing the differences in male and female discourse in a television drama, Star Trek, comparing its earliest episodes to those written in the mid-nineties.…”

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Gender and bilinguals’ creativity

Baker

2001

World Englishes

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Research on the influence of gender on language across different cultures has mostly concentrated on qualitative measures of analysis. These measures demonstrate that there are differences in rhetorical and literary style across world Englishes in both the inner and outer circle. Using Biber's multidimensional analysis (1988) to examine a large corpus of world English literatures written in Indian, West African, Britain, Anglo-American and Mexican American varieties of English, this paper examines whether quantitative analyses can also be insightful and useful in the examination of the influence of gender on language and in expanding our understanding of what``bilingual creativity'' entails. The results of this study reveal that computational methods of analyzing texts both confirm former research comparing differences between texts written by men and women in different varieties of English and also shed new light on differences that exist between these varieties.

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Gender and bilinguals’ creativity

Baker

2001

World Englishes

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The female voice and traditional discourse biases: The case of francophone African literature

1994

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This study reports on a statistical approach to Francophone African literature, addressing the issues of discourse bias and the specificity of female writing as against male. The research is based on a comparison of all the characters present in 20 novels written by male and female African authors, under the headings of importance, power and attitude. It suggests that a number of significant differences characterize the make-up of novels written by African female and male authors.

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Weighing the evidence: Legal discourse in the 19th-Century Spanish feminist Concepción Arenal

Irizarry

1995

Comput Hum

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In her remarkable 1861 book, The Woman of the Future, Concepcirn Arenal appropriated legal discourse, a wholly male domain, to plead the case for women's rights, in particular, education. Two different types of legal discourse emerge in her writing: that of written legislative law and that of courtroom advocacy. The computer can gather evidence of both; however, each mode of discourse requires different measures to weigh the significance of the findings. Easily obtainable repeat rates serve as an useful measure that can be related to what recognition psychologists call "retention intervals" and that are easily understood by non-statistically oriented literary scholars. Analysis focuses on Arenal's use of typography, lexicon, repetition, ideological challenge, interactive discourse, and prescriptive speech acts of the legal register to advocate the cause of women in nineteenth-century Spain.

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A computer-assisted investigation of gender-related idiolect in Octavio Paz and Rosario Castellanos

Cited by 21 publications

References 8 publications

Gender and bilinguals’ creativity

Gender and bilinguals’ creativity

The female voice and traditional discourse biases: The case of francophone African literature

Weighing the evidence: Legal discourse in the 19th-Century Spanish feminist Concepción Arenal

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