Signifying female identity through grammatical innovation: A socio-cultural interpretation

Ness, Silke Van

doi:10.1080/00437956.1999.11432487

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“…My research interest within PG studies has also been linguistic changes, but with a focus on a particular population of Amish females of certain conservative settlements located in Holmes County, Ohio, and adjacent regions. For example, my data have shown that Ohio Amish women have been the innovators of morphological changes within the pronominal paradigm of PG (Van Ness 1995. As is well known, German, along with other European languages, assigns gender to all nouns.…”

Section: Playing Music Al Chairs In Pronominal Gender Reassignment? Smentioning

confidence: 74%

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American Speech

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American Speech was born in 1925, in the middle of an era in North America comparable in many ways to the present. As a result of World War I, America's power became international, and Americans felt an energizing new identity, culturally and linguistically independent of colonial and migrant ties. The nation was experiencing an unprecedented economic boom. Opportunity to participate in the political process had been extended to women in 1922. The government experienced and survived scandal at the highest levels. In rapid succession, technological advances brought new and quicker forms of transportation and communication. By 1922, 15 million passenger cars were in use. Between 1920 and 1924, households with radios increased from 5,000 to 2.5 million. By 1924, the first tabloid, the New York Daily News, claimed the nation's largest newspaper circulation. By the end of the decade movies were drawing 90 million viewers a week. But prosperity and developing communication did not eradicate old emotional prejudices. Then, as now, forces of social fragmentation and isolation that affect language were operating. In 1921 immigration was drastically restricted. Several states curtailed the use of immigrant languages in schools. In 1925, the year of the first issue of American Speech, 40,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan marched in Washington, D.C., and a schoolteacher in Tennessee was brought to trial for violating laws against teaching the theory of evolution. Racial segregation was the norm, and discrimination by race or religion was acceptable. This was the milieu that generated the receptive audience for three editions of H. L. Mencken's The American Language (1919, 1921, 1923) in four years. By all accounts, it was Mencken who first proposed a journal devoted to the language of North America-a journal that is now completing 75 years of publication. On 16 November 1924, Louise Pound wrote from Nebraska to the Williams and Wilkins Company of Baltimore, "I believe with H. L. Mencken that a journal of the living language is needed.. .. Mr. Mencken tells me

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Section: Playing Music Al Chairs In Pronominal Gender Reassignment? Smentioning

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Language and Digital Technology: Corpora, Contact, and Change

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Impact of gender on frequency of code-switching in Snapchat advertisements

Almoaily

2023

Open Linguistics

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Although the phenomenon of code-switching has been a subject of interest to sociolinguists since the 1970s, to date, little research has been conducted on the impact of gender on the frequency of code-switching, especially in oral communication. The current study is an attempt to bridge this gap by comparing code-switching instances in Snapchat advertisements made by 40 Saudi influencers (20 males and 20 females) who roughly belong to the same age group. The first 100 words made by each advertiser were included in the 4,000-word corpus. Although the female sample produced more instances of code-switching (n = 60) than males (n = 42), the hypothesis that there is a significant difference between males and females in the frequency of code-switching was rejected because the difference was not statistically significant either in the number of instances (p value = 0.116) or in the number of English words (p value = 0.149).

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Signifying female identity through grammatical innovation: A socio-cultural interpretation

Cited by 3 publications

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Language and Digital Technology: Corpora, Contact, and Change

Impact of gender on frequency of code-switching in Snapchat advertisements

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