18.171 gendered writing styles

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 171.
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         Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 06:41:16 +0100
         From: "Christine Goldbeck" <cgoldie_at_verizon.net>
         Subject: Re: 18.161 gendered writing styles?

    I will be interested in seeing the results of your survey.

    Sincerely,
    Christine

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> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 161.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
> www.princeton.edu/humanist/
> Submit to: humanist_at_princeton.edu
>
>
>
> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:24:23 +0100
> From: Victoria Varga <vix_at_geeksanon.ca>
> Subject: Research into gendered writing styles
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm an undergraduate student at the University of Alberta (in Edmonton,
> Alberta, Canada) and I received a research award for this summer. As a
> part of my research, I need people to fill out an online survey I
> created.
>
> I am researching the subject of language in gender, particularily
> whether or not there are gendered writing styles. I have written a
> computer program in Perl which labels a text as being either male or
> female in style based upon the number of gendered markers found in the
> text. The algorithm is based upon the definitions of Robin Lakoff and
> Dale Spender, among others, of what a feminine language style is. I will
> compare the results of this program with the results generated by my
> online survey.
>
> If you are interested in helping me collect data, you can find my survey
> at this address:
> http://vix.geeksanon.ca/survey/
>
> It takes about 10-20 minutes to complete. Please do not use the forward,
> back, or reload buttons while taking the survey.
>
> Thank you very much,
> Vicky Varga
>
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