Gender and Language
On Sociolinguistic Oriented Research on the Relationship between Language and Gender, and the Reality of Gender Condition in Africa
... on language and gender existed well before the Western women movement of the 1970s and 1980s, the ‘second-wave’ feminist movement in the United States and Europe is said to have led to the development of ...
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The Influence of Gender and Ethnicity on the Choice of Language in the Transaction Domain of Language Use: The Case of Undergraduates
... respondents’ gender and ethnicity from one side and their language choices from the other, the respondents’ gender and ethnicity were selected as independent variables and the dominant ...
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The Influence of Gender Identity on Lexical Choice and Laypersons' Perception of Gender and Language in Dutch
... of language variation due to gender were mostly based on stereotypes and anecdotes, various social influences, such as the feminist movement, have made research in this field more scientific and have ...
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GENDER DIFFERENCES IN LANGUAGE LEARNING STYLE AND LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES
... to language learning strategies, including language being learned, level of language learning, proficiency, degree of metacognitive awareness, gender, affective variables such as attitudes, ...
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Gender and language in sub-Saharan African contexts: Issues and challenges
... contexts, language and gender scholars should not be nervous of trying to expose different forms of oppression (a matrilineal society does not preclude other forms of male dominance, neither does women ...
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Gender Bias in Elementary School Language Textbooks
... of gender equality as a parameter in the curriculum. Gender-biased tendencies are still embedded in elementary textbooks and continue to dominate the pages of school ...elementary language textbooks ...
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Reducing Gender Bias in Word Level Language Models with a Gender Equalizing Loss Function
... reduces gender bias in the language models during train- ing by equalizing the probabilities of male and female words in the output; iii) we show that end-to-end debiasing of the language model can ...
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Gender as a Variable in Natural Language Processing: Ethical Considerations
... the gender category to be the result of an opaque process—that is, they do not fully em- brace the transparency and accountability princi- ples identified above, making the validity of stud- ies difficult to ...
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Gender differences in the language of the Map Task dialogues
... the language produced by males and females and for a variety of text types (formal and informal prose, ...speaker gender, partner gender, prior interpersonal familiarity, task-based role, ...
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Analysis of Cyber Language: Identifying Gender Boundaries
... understandable language has evolved through Facebook which is responsible for significant differences between males’ and females’ linguistic ...a gender is the dominant user of a specific feature but that ...
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Automatically Inferring Gender Associations from Language
... inferring gender associations from language, discover- ing coherent word clusters, and labeling the clusters for the semantic concepts they repre- ...
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The Impact of Gender on the Foreign Language Anxiety of the Yemeni University Students
... as gender, age, educational level and place of ...and gender and shown that female learners are more concerned about language complications compared to male ones and that they are more anxious and ...
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The Relationship between Language Learners’ Willingness to Communicate and Their Oral Language Proficiency with Regard to Gender Differences
... second language (Dӧrnyei, 2005, Peng & Woodrow, ...foreign language (EFL) context ...and language learners’ oral proficiency were related in an Iranian ...intermediate language learners ...
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The Problem of Gender and Sensitive Use of the Language in Kazakhstan: The Case of German
... interconnected. Language forms and expressions influence our representations. Language reflects social values and fixes symmetry and asymmetry in its use, equality or an inequality of the language ...
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Gender, language and a lipstick: creating cultural change in a world of paradoxes
... PC language via his systematic political ...anti-racist language is another way of colonizing public discourse and exercising power in terms of gender, race and ...
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Identifying and Reducing Gender Bias in Word Level Language Models
... work language model trained on the text cor- pus; (iii) propose a regularization loss term for the language model that minimizes the pro- jection of encoder-trained embeddings onto an embedding subspace ...
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Language play facilitates language learning: Optimizing the input for gender-like category induction
... of gender assignment in a gender-marking language which provides exclusively syntactic and no noun ...considered language plays, ...2006). Language plays are characterized by being ...
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Gender as a Variable in Natural-Language Processing: Ethical Considerations
... of gender sees it as performa- ...3) gender consists in “the behaviors and ap- pearances society dictates a body of a particular sex should perform,” structuring “people’s under- standing of themselves and ...
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The dimensions of written expression: Language group and gender differences
... and language groups may not generalise to specific language ...different language groups (SFR, 2012a) and the magnitude of gender differences across the ethnic groups (Strand, ...the ...
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Gender Issues in Hindi Language Family Based Teleserials
... Abstract- Teleserials in India constitute major share of the time devoted to entertainment programmes on the Hindi language channels of Indian television. In India, teleserials rose to popularity after Humlog, the ...
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