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Is Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Guilty of Promoting Women’s Language?

Teresa D Dueñas Mayorga Walt Disney movies are notorious for highlighting the differences between genders and promoting certain gender standards. Since these movies target children, they can have an impact on how children view themselves and others. This study will focus on investigating whether the classic Disney movie Beauty and the Beast, includes a culture […]

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I Hate to Interrupt, but… Examining Interruptions, Face-Threatening Acts, and Banter in Mixed-Sex Two-Person Conversational Style Sports Interviews

Korosh Bahrami Previous research conducted on differences in interruption usage between men and women yielded inconclusive results, providing the impetus for this study. This present study seeks to explore gender differences in the usage of interruptions in mixed-sex two-person conversational style sports interviews. In addition, I am exploring whether the informal structure of a sports

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Using Language to Examine Power and Gender Gradients Between YouTube’s Influencers

Helen Ng With YouTubers, or influencers, rapidly pervading the younger generation’s social media spaces, the following article takes a stab at uncovering the linguistic patterns of successful interruptions and rising intonations at the end of declarative statements in YouTubers’ language. This observational study’s sample consists of beauty and comedy influencers, the types of YouTubers who

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Is Tennis Truly a Gender Neutral Sport? How Grand Slams and Gender Stereotypes Affect the Language of Tennis Stars

Alyssa Ishimoto Tennis is considered gender-neutral. In fact, if asked to name famous tennis players, most people would recall athletes of both genders, such as Roger Federer or Serena Williams. However, it is doubtful whether tennis is truly a “gender-neutral” sport that is immune to pervasive gender stereotypes and whether tennis athletes, in particular, succumb

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“Yeah” “Mhmm” “Right”: A gendered study on supportive overlap among a group of UCLA friends

Yasmine Choroomi Have you ever heard people use words like “yeah”, “mhmm”, or “right” while you’re speaking to them in a conversation? This method of cooperative communication is called supportive overlap in linguistics and can be presented undetected in mundane conversations. Although such an interaction can take place in less than a second of conversation

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May I Speak Now? Examining Gendered Turn-Taking in Televised Debates

Daniel Li, Jennifer Moon, Ming Liang, Minh-Khoa Tran The present text explores turn-taking by focusing on two prominent models which describe gender differences in communication — the dominance model and the difference model. The idea of deep interruptions is also employed in this study to better measure turn taking during interactions. We are focusing on

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Gender Differences in Written Language

Jasmine Murphy, Hannah Hong, Kyungjo Kim, Omar Balawag This study investigates gender differences in written language. Particularly, by analyzing cover letters for women-preferential language indicators, we find how gender is enacted in formal, written contexts. Furthermore, we investigate how usage of women’s language indicators is affected when discussing subjects deemed to be masculine or feminine.

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Language and Power in Politics: A Gender Stereotype Game

Sarah Thomas, Emma Greene, Cameron Brewer, Jamie Dela Cruz With 2020 fast approaching, everybody has their eyes on the many candidates running for president, calling into attention how they frame particular issues to gain public support. The mixed-gender debates within the Democratic party raise the question of how this new dynamic will affect future political

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