Gender Patterns on Facebook: A Sociolinguistic Perspective

Nazir, Bairrah

doi:10.5296/ijl.v4i3.1899

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“…There is little attention paid to the issue of gender, handful researches are available which deal with the online linguistic practices of males and females. Eckert & McConnell-Ginnet believe that women use more standard language than men (Nazir, 2012). The women choose the more standard or advanced form of any language than men do.…”

Section: Gender and Linguistic Practicesmentioning

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“…Being a language of technology, commerce, education and business, English has become the source of communication on social media as it is more privileged than any other language. In recent years social networks have provided great space for researchers to look into linguistic patterns of male and female speakers of different languages especially the posts, comments and profiles on Facebook (Nazir, 2012). As it is a common thought that linguistic practices of men and women are different and males and females have different approaches towards language in a society.…”

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English and Khowar: The study of Social Media Linguistic Practices of Khowar Speakers

Anbreen

Riaz

Akhtar

2020

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Khowar is a language that belongs to Dardic group. It is spoken in different parts of Pakistan predominantly in Chitral where it is considered as lingua franca of the area. In the recent era, technology has become advanced and people have started to use different social mediums like Facebook to get in contact with their counterparts. As the social media networks are linguistically diverse so speakers choose a specific language for interaction. Among these languages, English is considered as the dominant language which has influenced the linguistic practices of the speakers. This study explores the linguistic practices of Khowar speakers on Facebook. To explore the linguistic practices of the speakers twenty participants are selected among which ten are males and ten are females. The posts and comments on the Facebook of the speakers have been analyzed to explore the similarities and differences in the linguistic practices of the speakers.

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Section: Gender and Linguistic Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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English and Khowar: The study of Social Media Linguistic Practices of Khowar Speakers

Anbreen

Riaz

Akhtar

2020

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“…Gender differences were also found in the purpose of using Facebook. Nazir (2012) indicated that women were using Facebook to maintain existing relationships, pass the time, and be entertained. On the other hand, men were more likely to go to Facebook to develop new relationships or meet new people.…”

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“…Facebook is one of these social networking sites that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, share information, and create a personal background. Consequently, Facebook has opened the door for the scrutiny of gender differences in terms of language and profile picture, profile identity, language variation, privacy issue, groups, and topics both gender use (Nazir, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

Genders Patterns on Facebook: A Jordanian Sociolinguistic Perspective

Al-Sad

Yunus

2020

IJHPL

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The emergence of social media has demonstrated impacts on Jordanian males' and females' culture and language. These impacts highlighted the differences between women's and men's usage patterns on social media that have been a subject of interest to scholars. Jordanian culture is bounded by values, traditions, and norms from Islam and Arabic values. Thus, the present study aims to figure out gender prototypes on social networking sites, namely Facebook, taking Jordan society as the norm. It also investigates how much Fakebook’s use has changed males' and females' social, cultural, and linguistic behaviors. The study is a mixture of sociolinguistic and anthropological research as both language and culture are studied. Discourse and thematic analysis were performed to analyze the collected data from 80 Facebook active users whose ages range from 19 to 45 (40 male and 40 female). The results showed the differences between males and females users at different levels. Females tend to use informal language to comment on females' posts and formal language to comment on males' posts. Further, most males explicitly use their real images as profile pictures, while females hide their real pictures. Females disclose their real names on their profiles just as males, but females tend to hide their contact information due to privacy concerns. Females and males are almost the same in using Facebook for social purposes, either in topics or groups. The results can be interpreted as reflections of Jordanian culture and social values that shape women's and men's positions and attitudes in Jordanian communities. This study recommends further research on social networks, considering other social variables such as education, age, and geography to pinpoint the exact patterns of users that are relatively diverse according to the speech communities.

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“…Many researches have been explored regarding the gender pattern in social media. Barirah Nazir [7] "Gender Patterns on Facebook: A Sociolinguistics Perspective" was done in Department of English, University of Sargodha Punjab, Pakistan. Her research was focusing on the differences and similarities tracing on genders using social network which shown that in maintaining the relationship by being polite was done by women while men love to find new relationship.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sociolinguistics perspectives on gender patterns in instagram

2020

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This article focused on the the gender patterns that were found in the social media Instagram based on the sociolinguistics point of view. There were two research questions were arisen what types of the gender patterns that were found in the social media Instagram based on the sociolinguistics and the factors of the difference language used based on gender in social media Instagram. Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT) was used to analyze the data. The data was taken from all of component of the sociolinguistics aspect in social media network especially for gender patterns that existed on the social media instagram college students' users id in Pekanbaru. The writer took 30 Instagram users id as sample. The study found that two types of gender patterns, first; gender in writing and second; gender in profile photo, thus there were five main assumptions that caused the differences language in gender in social media Instagram, namely; (1) an audience is active and goal-oriented in their media consumption, (2) media are used for gratifications, (3) media are in competition with other means of need satisfaction, (4) people understand their personal media use, interests, and motives enough to communicate with researchers about their choices, (5) the audience members are the only people who can make judgments regarding the value of the media content. The study recommends that sociolinguistics is an interesting topic to be researched thus future field of study concerns with the rapid changing phenomena in social media.

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Gender Patterns on Facebook: A Sociolinguistic Perspective

Cited by 10 publications

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English and Khowar: The study of Social Media Linguistic Practices of Khowar Speakers

English and Khowar: The study of Social Media Linguistic Practices of Khowar Speakers

Genders Patterns on Facebook: A Jordanian Sociolinguistic Perspective

Sociolinguistics perspectives on gender patterns in instagram

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