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Oliva, Miguel Ángel Aijón; Serrano, María José

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“…The finding also correlates with the findings of some previous studies particularly concerning variation in grammatical and lexical choices on account of gender. For example, Oliva and Serrano (2016) investigated the relationship between the statistical patterning of linguistic choices across genders and the meaningful use of such elements in particular contexts, and it was found that male discourse usually shows higher rates of expressed subject pronouns, while women are more inclined to omission. They also reported identified differences in male and female preference for particular grammatical subjects, with men promoting the use of the singular first person and women, that of the second one.…”

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Grammar and Gender: A Comparative Study of the Integration and Organisation of Meanings in Selected Male and Female-authored Proseworks

Dahunsi

2016

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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Studies have established gender-based variations in human’s use of language, particularly in the areas of grammar and lexis. This study investigated language use in prose-works involving male and female writers, aimed at finding out whether there were grammar related variations in the use of language by the selected male and female writers. The framework adopted for analysis was the Hallidayan notion of Clause Complexes and Embedded Clauses and how writers made conscious choices from the grammar of logical meaning in their different narratives. Five male-authored and five female-authored prose-works were selected for the study. A part of each prose-work containing fifty (50) consecutive sentences was randomly excised and analysed into clause simplexes, clause complexes and embedded clauses, and the frequencies of these clause types were determined. The result clearly showed that the male authors had higher frequencies of clause complexes than simplexes; whereas the female writers had lower frequencies of complexes but higher frequencies of simplexes. It also showed higher frequencies of embedded clauses in male-authored texts than in female-authored ones. The results therefore suggested that narratives of male writers tend to be more syntactically complex (because of higher frequencies of clustered clauses and varying functional and semantic relationships among component clauses) and semantically complex (because of a much tighter integration of meanings through clause clustering and embedding). The narratives of female writers, on the other hand, tend to be syntactically and semantically simple (with higher use of simplexes, but less use of complexes and embedded clauses).Keywords: Grammar, gender, clause complexes, clause simplexes, embedded clauses.

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Grammar and Gender: A Comparative Study of the Integration and Organisation of Meanings in Selected Male and Female-authored Proseworks

Dahunsi

2016

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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“…Tatsumi menemukan bahwa ada pola inversi pada susunan tata bahasa yang terjadi berdasarkan strata sosial partisipan dan agentive yang terlibat. Kajian lainnya juga dilakukan oleh Aijón Oliva & Serrano (2016) pada penutur bahasa Spanyol. Kajian tersebut difokuskan pada preferensi penggunaan subjek kalimat oleh penutur laki-laki dan perempuan.…”

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Kecenderungan Pola Kalimat Dalam Tuturan Laki-Laki Dan Perempuan: Studi Kasus Pada Tuturan Dua Karyawan Jawa Pos Surabaya

Kirana

2020

Widyaparwa

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This article examines the sentence patterns in the utterance of the young generation of Surabaya, a city with Javanese ngoko language as a daily communication medium. The Topicality Hierarchy and Language Transitivity theory wereemployed to analyze the pattern of sentences in participant speech because of the absence of Krama usage. The data was a conversation between a man and woman who worked as JawaPos Surabaya employee during lunch. The findings show that male participants tend to emphasize the focus of speech on things that are not human because the focus of speech was more on activities and information. But on the contrary, female participant emphasized more on humans because their speech emphasized the agent or the doer. In addition, more definite sentenceswere found in the speech of female participants than male participants. The study also found that female participant speech was more transitive than male participant speech. The findings also suggests that in comparison to the female participant’s speech, the male participant’s speech shows a stronger influence on the object of the sentence in contrast to the number of agents he used in his speech.Artikel ini mengkaji pola kalimat pada ujaran dua penutur muda Bahasa Jawa di Surabaya, sebuah kota dengan bahasa Jawa ngoko sebagai media komunikasi sehari-hari. Teori Topicality Hierarchy dan Language Transitivity digunakan untuk menganalisis pola kalimat dalam tuturan partisipan karena ketiadaan penggunaan kromo. Data merupakan percakapan seorang laki-laki dan perempuan yang bekerja sebagai karyawan Jawa Pos Surabaya ketika bercakap-cakap saat makan siang. Data diambil menggunakan perekam suara. Temuan yang ada menunjukkan bahwa partisipan laki-laki cenderung menitikberatkan fokus tuturan pada hal yang bukan manusia karena fokus tuturan lebih ditekankan pada kegiatan dan keterangan. Namun sebaliknya, partisipan perempuan lebih menekankan kepada manusia karena tuturannya menekankan pada agent atau pelaku kegiatan. Selain itu, lebih banyak ditemukan kalimat definite dalam tuturan partisipan perempuan daripada partisipan laki-laki. Kajian ini juga menemukan bahwa tuturan partisipan perempuan lebih transitif daripada tuturan partisipan laki-laki. Selain itu, dibandingkan dengan tuturan partisipan perempuan, tuturan partisipan laki-laki menunjukkan pengaruh yang lebih kuat terhadap objek kalimat berlawanan dengan jumlah agent yang digunakannya dalam tuturannya.Artikel ini mengkaji pola kalimat pada ujaran dua penutur muda Bahasa Jawa di Surabaya, sebuah kota dengan bahasa Jawa ngoko sebagai media komunikasi sehari-hari. Teori Topicality Hierarchy dan Language Transitivity digunakan untuk menganalisis pola kalimat dalam tuturan partisipan karena ketiadaan penggunaan kromo. Data merupakan percakapan seorang laki-laki dan perempuan yang bekerja sebagai karyawan Jawa Pos Surabaya ketika bercakap-cakap saat makan siang. Data diambil menggunakan perekam suara. Temuan yang ada menunjukkan bahwa partisipan laki-laki cenderung menitikberatkan fokus tuturan pada hal yang bukan manusia karena fokus tuturan lebih ditekankan pada kegiatan dan keterangan. Namun sebaliknya, partisipan perempuan lebih menekankan kepada manusia karena tuturannya menekankan pada agent atau pelaku kegiatan. Selain itu, lebih banyak ditemukan kalimat definite dalam tuturan partisipan perempuan daripada partisipan laki-laki. Kajian ini juga menemukan bahwa tuturan partisipan perempuan lebih transitif daripada tuturan partisipan laki-laki. Selain itu, dibandingkan dengan tuturan partisipan perempuan, tuturan partisipan laki-laki menunjukkan pengaruh yang lebih kuat terhadap objek kalimat berlawanan dengan jumlah agent yang digunakannya dalam tuturannya.

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Variation and society

Serrano

2023

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In Spanish, tener que and haber que + infinitive are modal periphrases that convey deontic meanings. The present investigation analyzes these periphrases as variants used in diverse communicative settings by different kinds of participants, acting as either speakers/writers or addressees. Tener que + infinitive tends to appear in those contexts where a more striking implication or unavoidable recommendation is needed. Haber que + infinitive is used more in a wide range of genres promoting a desubjectivizing-deontic meaning. As for the sex/gender of the participants, men more frequently use tener que + infinitive, whereas women tend to employ haber que + infinitive. The latter feature was also found to be significant when the sex/gender of the addressee is unknown; also, tener que + infinitive resulted more frequently in texts to be read or listened by women. The sociolinguistic distribution of the meanings conveyed by each periphrasis helps to delineate communicative styles based on the objectivity-subjectivity dimension.

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Grammar and Gender: A Comparative Study of the Integration and Organisation of Meanings in Selected Male and Female-authored Proseworks

Grammar and Gender: A Comparative Study of the Integration and Organisation of Meanings in Selected Male and Female-authored Proseworks

Kecenderungan Pola Kalimat Dalam Tuturan Laki-Laki Dan Perempuan: Studi Kasus Pada Tuturan Dua Karyawan Jawa Pos Surabaya

Variation and society

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