TY - JOUR
T1 - “You look like my 14-year-old daughter”
T2 - A corpus-based study of sexist language in everyday sexism Twitter stories
AU - Wang, Wanwen
AU - Ngai, Jonathan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© John Benjamins Publishing Company.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The main purpose of this corpus-based study is to examine the different types of sexist language women are subjected to in their daily interactions with men, together with their hidden ideologies. To this end, we analysed a total of 1,118 English tweets posted on the hashtag #everydaysexism on Twitter over a year. Results indicate that women experience both overt and indirect verbal aggression in different domains of life, expressed through a range of sexist linguistic markers, and that such aggressions often reflect the users’ beliefs and values about men and women. By using a category-based model to examine a feminist narrative hashtag where women’s experiences of sexism are shared, our study offers a robust and principled approach to conducting a corpus-based, cross-domain discourse analysis of sexism in daily communication.
AB - The main purpose of this corpus-based study is to examine the different types of sexist language women are subjected to in their daily interactions with men, together with their hidden ideologies. To this end, we analysed a total of 1,118 English tweets posted on the hashtag #everydaysexism on Twitter over a year. Results indicate that women experience both overt and indirect verbal aggression in different domains of life, expressed through a range of sexist linguistic markers, and that such aggressions often reflect the users’ beliefs and values about men and women. By using a category-based model to examine a feminist narrative hashtag where women’s experiences of sexism are shared, our study offers a robust and principled approach to conducting a corpus-based, cross-domain discourse analysis of sexism in daily communication.
KW - hashtag feminism
KW - indirect sexism
KW - overt sexism
KW - sexist language
KW - sexist markers
KW - stereotype
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85187917597&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1075/jlac.00090.wan
DO - 10.1075/jlac.00090.wan
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85187917597
SN - 2213-1272
JO - Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict
JF - Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict
ER -