Shirley Yao, Sabrina Meyn, Viktoria Hovhannisyan The friendship dynamics that males and females form with the same-sex differ in how they bond homosocially: either vertical or horizontal. Homosocial bonds are those that are non-romantic social bonds between those of the same-sex. Historically, these two types of homosocialities are used to regulate how people perform gender. […]
Kevin Kim, Kota Tsukamoto, Guorang Zhang, Cindy Zheng For our experiment, we analyzed Twitch streamers playing Valorant. Twitch, or Twitch.TV, is an online streaming platform popular among gamers. Valorant is a popular first-person shooter (FPS) game created by Riot Games in 2020. Valorant, as of 2021, has an estimated 12 million players, peaking at 15
Different Ways that Male and Female Streamers Behave on Valorant Streams Read Post »
Hannah Chu, Trevor Htoon, Youchuan (Aaron) Hu, Ann Mayor, Grace Yao Can we detect language change right as it’s happening? As a result of nearly a century of colonial handoffs, the Southeast Asian Island of Singapore developed its own, unique variety of English: Singapore Colloquial English, more commonly known as Singlish. There is reason to
Megan Fu, Rowan Konstanzer, Erin Kwak, and Kimberly Gaona Examining the speech of nonbinary individuals allows a better understanding of how different speech acoustic features such as vocal pitch, quality, and tempo are used to help construct gender identity. By investigating the speech acoustic features of non-binary celebrities, this study investigates whether coming out would
Beyond the Binary: Analyzing Vocal Pitch of Non-Binary Celebrities Read Post »
Baltazar Sanchez III In multilingual settings, speakers use several languages at the same time; this type of discourse is known as code-switching, where speakers may make switches at any point in their conversation between different codes, or languages. Many studies focus on the rules— or constraints, depending on the author’s approach— involved in this type
Understanding Contrastive Conjunctions as Discourse Markers in Bilingual Discourse Read Post »
Wenqian Guo This study investigates how and why a specific speaker’s linguistic behavioral patterns may differ across channels on the same social media platform. Specifically, this research addresses important components in conversations, such as grammaticality and illocutionary indications, as well as the emoji feature that is exclusive to online media, the Chinese social media platform
Sarah Arjona, Yeeun Heo, Erika Yagi, Minyoung Yoon, Bryan Zhao Have you ever imagined growing up next to the pyramids or the Eiffel tower? Some Third Culture Kids (TCKs) do so without being Egyptian or French, because they live abroad with their parents. Although extensive research has been done on code-switching, not a lot of
Where are you from? I don’t know but did you ask the question in English? ¿o en Español? Read Post »
Nisha Porchezhiyan The present article is a research study about the use of gendered insults while playing Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart. This study consisted of three players, one female and two male playing both of the games and analyzing their conversations to see which gender used “pussy” as an insult more often and
“Pussy!”: Gendered Insults While Video Gaming Read Post »
Olivia Heiner Insults are sometimes regarded as negative or impolite; however, they can also be a playful ritual among various communities. Consider, for example, the exaggerated “Yo Mama” jokes told between young school children. Such insults are entertaining, performative, and unlikely to cause much harm. This article explores the practice of mock ritual insults in
Reading is Fundamental: The Role of Ritual Insults in Ru Paul’s Drag Race Read Post »
Catherine Guzman, Joan Kim, Kiara Mares, Yadira Marquez, Flor Ramirez College enrollment and graduation rate from Latinos has increased during the last decade. Latinas[1] went from being 17% of graduates in 2000 to 30% in 2017. Latina mothers have played an important role in the success of Latinas by either providing motivation or pressuring them.