Sökning: "Sociolinguistics and gender"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 41 uppsatser innehållade orden Sociolinguistics and gender.

  1. 1. Gendered Language in English Job Advertisements and the Perception of Potential Applicants within Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Sweden

    Kandidat-uppsats, Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Författare :Josefin Alm; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Sociolinguistics; gender; language; masculine and feminine words; job advertisements; electrical; and electronic engineering.;

    Sammanfattning : This mixed-method study investigates the use of masculine and feminine-coded words (i.e., words associated with gender stereotypes) in English job advertisements in Sweden, focusing on the male-dominated Electronic and Electric engineering field in Sweden (SCB, 2022). LÄS MER

  3. 2. “What’s up, bro?” : A synchronic corpus study on the use of bro in TV shows

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Felizia Livskog; [2022]
    Nyckelord :corpus; TV corpus; slang; sociolinguistics; synchronic; bro;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to analyze the synchronic variation in usage of the word bro in English speaking TV shows that aired 2017, by extracting data from The TV Corpus. In today’s society bro is becoming more and more frequent in use and the increase seems to be partly due to the high level of nuance the word has. LÄS MER

  4. 3. En or ett, un or una? A comparative study on the assignment of grammatical gender to borrowings in Swedish and Spanish

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för lingvistik och kognitiv semiotik

    Författare :Victor Åstrand; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Gender; grammatical gender; Swedish; Spanish; borrowings; loanwords; sociolinguistics; questionnaire; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : In recent years, experimental studies on gender assignment to borrowings in languages such as German and Dutch have observed variation in gender assignment in relation to dialectal areas, among other factors. However, many issues related to gender assignment have yet to be fully understood, and the sociolinguistic variation has not been properly investigated. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Gender differences in the usage of mild versus strong swearwords and their pre-modifying adjectives : An analysis of findings in the BNC2014

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Författare :Katerina Swensson Doschoris; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Swearing; gender differences; pre-modifying adjectives; British National Corpus; sociolinguistics;

    Sammanfattning : This essay presents a study on gender differences with a focus on mild and strong swearwords and their pre-modifying adjectives when describing a person, based on findings from the BNC2014. Previous research implies that men and women use different types of swearwords, suggesting that men tend to use stronger language than women. LÄS MER

  7. 5. "Pero tenemos diez dedos" : El albur mexicano visto desde un enfoque de género

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Författare :Isa Lundqvist; [2021]
    Nyckelord :albur; gender; pragmatic sociolinguistics; feminine language use; Mexico; albur; género; sociolingüística pragmática; habla femenina; México;

    Sammanfattning : El albur es un fenómeno lingüístico y duelo verbal de doble sentido sexual altamente asociado con la identidad y el lenguaje mexicano. El objetivo de esta tesina es explorar el albur y su relación con género, desde su concepción prehispánica hasta la actualidad, para averiguar el posible rol que pueda tener en este juego una persona de identidad de género no masculina. LÄS MER