Gender Differences in the Use of Lexical Features in Text Messaging of Pakistani Students
| Autor: | Kiran Jahanzeb, Humaira Irfan, Jahanzeb Jahan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Zdroj: | Global Regional Review. :80-89 |
| ISSN: | 2663-7030 2616-955X |
| DOI: | 10.31703/grr.2022(vii-i).09 |
| Popis: | This research intends to discover gender differences in the usage of linguistic features in text messages by Pakistani students. Herring's approach to Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis is used as the backbone of this research. In this qualitative research, a sample of 100 university students was selected. The sample provided a corpus of 300 text messages. Content analysis was used for coding and classification of the data, whereas descriptive statistics were used to find out percentages and frequencies. The data was classified as the messages sent by the males and those by females. Lexical features are classified as contraction, letter and number homophones, and initialism. Male students use more contractions, initial-isms and clippings while female students use letter and number homophones more than the male students do. This study is important in terms of genderlects and their differences. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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