Are We Really Wor(l)ds Apart?On Gender, Genre and Language Use in Blogs
Are We Really Wor(l)ds Apart?On Gender, Genre and Language Use in Blogs

Summary/Abstract: Consistent research has been conducted on the interaction between language and gender/genre in the electronic discourse of blogs. Overt preferences were found at the level of language choice in heightened involved/contextual language production in female-authored journal blogs opposed by proportionally increased informational/context-independent language production in male-authored filter blogs. My hypothesis is that the electronic platform does in fact reproduce the social construction of gender and the purported anonymity of electronic communication would not break down traditional gender binaries. Corpus-based research methodology is employed to show that the predictions about gender-related linguistic phenomena also confirm in the case of Romanian-language blogs.

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