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Marginality in the Information Age: The Socio-Demographics of Computer Disquietude. A Short Research Note
This research note investigates the socio-demographics of one aspect of the ‘digital divide’, namely computer use and attitudes...
Keywords: digital divide, marginality, computer attitudes, computer anxiety, gender, education
01/2005 | Communications, Walter de GruyterThe gendered relationship between journalism and public relations in Austria and Germany. A feminist approach
While journalism traditionally is considered a ‘masculine’ domain, it is said that public relations are a ‘feminine’ profession...
Keywords: journalism, public relations, gender, feminization
06/2005 | Communications, Walter de Gruyter“One of the last vestiges of gender bias”: The characterization of women through the telling of dirty jokes in Ally McBeal
Based on an audience-centered model of television discourse, we show that verbal interaction is one of the principal means of characterization in film...
Keywords: Characterization, gender, humor, joke telling, television discourse
02/2006 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de GruyterThe interaction of cartoonist's gender and formal features of cartoons
The present study investigates gender differences in the use of formal features of cartoons, like the amount of text, the number of panels, or the application of color...
Keywords: Cartoon, humor, gender, formal features
02/2007 | Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, Walter de Gruyter“Girls on tour”: Politeness, small talk, and gender in managerial business meetings
Politeness at work is examined in this paper by focusing on small talk as a form of linguistic politeness in relation to gender in business meetings...
Keywords: politeness, small talk, gender, performativity, communities of practice, gendered discourse
02/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterSword play: The cultural semiotics of violent scapegoating and sexual and racial othering
The abiding cultural significance of swords, in an age of technologicallysophisticated weapons of mass destruction, is as much a semiotic puzzle as it is a socio-psychological one...
Keywords: swords, commodity fetishism, anachronism, sexuality, Race, gender
06/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterConceptual manipulation by metaphors and frames: Dealing with rape victims in legal discourse
With an emphasis on the linguistic experiences of rape victims in the legal system, this paper is a consideration of recent innovations in semantic analysis that offer important methodological tools for the analysis of legal encounters...
Keywords: metaphor, frames, smuggling information, power, gender, rape, trial
05/2007 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de GruyterDie Genitivflexion von artikellos verwendbaren Eigennamen als syntaktisch konditionierte Allomorphie
Based on Eisenberg's (2000) insight that German has four genders instead of three, genitive singular inflection turns out to be driven by gender alone...
Keywords: gender, proper name, genitive inflection, syntactically conditioned allomorphy, declarative morphology, DP
11/2006 | Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Walter de GruyterPoliteness, Humor and Gender in the Workplace: Negotiating Norms and Identifying Contestation
After first considering some of the challenges of defining and measuring the concept of politeness, the analysis draws on data from the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project to illustrate the value of complementary quantitative and qualitative approaches to the issue of what it means to be polite at work...
Keywords: relational practice, humor, gender, workplace discourse analysis, methodology
01/2005 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterGender and impoliteness
This article analyzes the complex relationship between gender and impoliteness. Rather than assuming that gender and impoliteness are concrete entities which can be traced in conversation, I argue that gender and impoliteness are elements which are worked out within the course of interaction...
Keywords: gender, Impoliteness, politeness, assertiveness, co-operativeness, nice
07/2005 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterMultifunctional agreement patterns in Bantu and the possibility of genderless nouns
It is generally assumed that all nouns belong to a gender in gender languages and that this constitutes a fundamental difference between gender systems and systems of noun classifiers...
Keywords: agreement, animacy, article, Bantu, borrowing, Eton, gender, kin term, noun class, number, proper name, referentiality
10/2006 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterTypologically motivated over- vs. underspecification of gender in Germanic languages
This paper investigates different means of expressing natural gender in personal terms, namely derivational suffixes, different inflectional classes, and the inflection of pronouns, adjectives, and determiners for grammatical gender in the history of Ger-man, English, and Swedish...
Keywords: Germanic languages, typology, morphosyntax, gender, framing
03/2007 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag