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ISSN 2301-5837

Vol. 1 / No. 1 / Published : 2012-02

Order : 1, and page :1 - 6

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Original Article :

The comparisons between the language used by male and female peers in twitter

Author :

  1. Arissa Handini Soedjono*1
  1. Mahasiswa Fakultas Ilmu Budaya

Abstract :

Internet linguistics is currently making its way to a clearer path to discover categorizations, features, and particularities to its subject. This article attempts to give contribution to the ongoing linguistic research on gender and online communication. The platform we choose to analyze in this analysis is the microblog, Twitter. We use corpus linguistics as the approach to our analysis. Corpus linguistics involves natural texts, which are texts that are generated from real life data. The corpus of this study consists of 2,627 female tweets and 908 male tweets. The female tweets consist of 30,590 words while the male tweets consist of 10,405 words. For the main theories, we use language and gender theories in face-to-face communication as proposed by Lakoff (1975) and Coates (2004) as well as theories of online communication proposed by Herring (1994) and Crystal (2011).The result shows differences in the use of pronouns, similarities in the use of abbreviations, and differences and similarities in the use of vulgar words.

Keyword :

Effort, Social Structure, Patriarchy, Capitalist Society, Oppression,


References :

Biber, D.,(1995) Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-linguistic Comparison Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

Coates, J.,(2004) Women, Men and Language Third Edition Harlow : Pearson Education

Creswell, J. ,(2009) Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches Third Edition California : SAGE Publications

Danet, B., & Herring, S. C.,(2007) The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture, and Communication Online New York : Oxford University Press

Herring, S. ,(1994) Gender differences in computer-mediated communication: Bringing familiar baggage to the new frontier. Keynote talk at American Library Association Annual Convention - : Miami, Florida





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