Where Gender and Corpora Meet

This volume contains a set of chapters which explore the role of gender in different types of discourse (in English and Spanish) and based on different linguistic features of the texts. All the chapters are corpus-assisted and present novel research, providing methodological guidance and relevant results that can be useful for future investigation.

This book contains an original collection of contributions that deal with the use of a methodology based on, driven, or assisted by corpora to analyse language from a gender perspective. Specialist software is also used to answer the research questions addressed in every chapter. The papers selected examine English or Spanish texts and focus on the employment of gender-related words in several types of discourse (e.g., adventure tourism promotion, the Humanities, literature, legal texts, or social media). The authors cover these topics from different approaches to identify new features on how language use portrays the female and the male genders. Overall, this volume shows the power of the so-called Corpus Linguistics to understand the connection between language and gender. Therefore, this is a sample of the intersection of these three elements, forming the pivot of the monograph and offering, at the same time, analysis techniques that can be replicated.

Autorentext

Eva Lucía Jiménez-Navarro (PhD) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English and German of Universidad de Córdoba (Spain). Her research interests include corpus linguistics, terminology, phraseology, specialized languages, lexicography, and cognitive semantics. Leonor María Martínez Serrano (PhD) is an Associate Professor at the Department of English and German of Universidad de Córdoba (Spain). Her research interests include Canadian and American Literature, High Modernism and Ecocriticism, First Nations and Oral Literatures, Literary Translation, CLIL, and bilingual education.

Inhalt

TABLE OF CONTENTS - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - INTRODUCTION - Adventure tourism discourse: A corpus-based study from a gender approach - A corpus-assisted approach to gender in the Humanities discourse - The voices of Twitter: The continuous construction of femi-nist and antifeminist discourse - Corpus speaking: Eros and spirit in Natalie Rice's 26 Visions of Light - Deborah, Linguist yet Professor Michael. How British corpora reflect gender-relations through forms of address - Profiling and defocusing phenomena in the discourse of fe/male novelists: A corpus-based approach - Trans, transgender , and transsexual in case law: A corpus-assisted analysis of ECtHR judgments - Where language education, gender, and corpora meet