Effects of gender-linked language differences in adults' written discourse: Multivariate tests of language effects

Mulac, Anthony; Lundell, Torborg

doi:10.1016/0271-5309(94)90007-8

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“…Our results thus confirm and extend his and others' findings (Mulac & Lundell 1994;Biber et al 1998) that males tend to use more "informational" features. In particular, prepositions are among the features considered to be "informational".…”

Section: Male Markers: Specifierssupporting

confidence: 93%

“…Attributive adjectives are found by Biber to be both "informational" and "non-narrative" (Dimension 2), which indicates that male writing and nonfiction may share both such features (more on this below). Quantification (reasonably considered an "informational" feature) is not considered by Biber; however, our results here support the related observation (Mulac et al 1990;Mulac & Lundell 1994) …”

Section: Male Markers: Specifierssupporting

confidence: 84%

“…Most previous work has investigated apparent phonological and pragmatic differences between male and female language use in speech (e.g. Trudgill 1972;Key 1975;Holmes 1990;Labov 1990;Eckert 1997) and informal writing (such as student essays (Mulac et al 1990;Mulac & Lundell 1994) and electronic messaging (Herring 1996)). …”

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Gender, genre, and writing style in formal written texts

Argamon¹,

Koppel²,

Fine³

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Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse

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Abstract.This paper explores differences between male and female writing in a large subset of the British National Corpus covering a range of genres. Several classes of simple lexical and syntactic features that differ substantially according to author gender are identified, both in fiction and in non-fiction documents. In particular, we find significant differences between male-and female-authored documents in the use of pronouns and certain types of noun modifiers: although the total number of nominals used by male and female authors is virtually identical, females use many more pronouns and males use many more noun specifiers. More generally , it is found that even in formal writing, female writing exhibits greater usage of features identified by previous researchers as "involved" while male writing exhibits greater usage of features which have been identified as "informational". Finally, a strong correlation between the characteristics of male (female) writing and those of nonfiction (fiction) is demonstrated.

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Section: Male Markers: Specifierssupporting

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Section: Male Markers: Specifierssupporting

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Gender, genre, and writing style in formal written texts

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Fine³

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Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse

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“…In contrast, Mehl and Pennebaker (2003) reported that both sexes made social references at comparable rates in daily conversations with others. Similarly, Mulac and Lundell (1994) reported that women used fewer first person singular pronouns than men in neutral picture descriptions. In contrast, Pennebaker & King (1999) found that women consistently used "I", "me", and "my" at higher rates in personal essays.…”

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“…Differences in word use have further been found to be indicatative of differences in cultural backgrounds (Maass, Karasawa, Politi, & Sayaka, 2006;Tsai, Simenova, & Watanabe, 2004), age (Pennebaker & Stone, 2003), and gender and sexual orientation (Groom & Pennebaker, 2005;Mulac & Lundell, 1994). Finally, word choice has been used to distinguish deceptive from truthful communication (Hancock, Curry, Goorha, & Woodworth, 2008;Newman, Pennebaker, Berry, & Richards, 2003) and to track psychological responses to upheavals (Cohn, Mehl, & Pennebaker, 2004;Pennebaker & Lay, 2002).…”

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How Taking a Word for a Word Can Be Problematic: Context-Dependent Linguistic Markers of Extraversion and Neuroticism

Mehl

Robbins

Holleran

2013

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This study conceptually extends recent research on linguistic markers of psychological processes by demonstrating that psychological correlates of word use can vary with the context in which the words are used. The word use of 90 participants was analyzed across two theoretically defined communication contexts. Information about participants' public language use was derived from recorded snippets of their daily conversations with others. Information about their private language use was derived from stream-of-consciousness essays. Personality trait-word use associations emerged as highly context dependent. Extraversion as a public trait was related to verbal productivity in public but not private language. Neuroticism as a private trait was related to the verbal expression of emotions in private but not public language. Verbal immediacy was indicative of Extraversion in public and Neuroticism in private language use. The findings illustrate the importance of considering communication contexts in research on psychological implications of natural language use.

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International Handbook of Internet Research

Hunsinger¹,

Klastrup²,

Allen³

2010

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Effects of gender-linked language differences in adults' written discourse: Multivariate tests of language effects

Cited by 73 publications

References 21 publications

Gender, genre, and writing style in formal written texts

Gender, genre, and writing style in formal written texts

How Taking a Word for a Word Can Be Problematic: Context-Dependent Linguistic Markers of Extraversion and Neuroticism

International Handbook of Internet Research

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