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GENERICS PROBLEM AND SOCIAL MEDIA: THE USE OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS IN FACEBOOK APPS

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MAGDZIARZ K.

Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies

2013

vol. 5

85-103

Sexist language is a language that represents women or/and men differently and/or unequally. One such representation is visible in the usage of pronouns. Referring to a person of unspecified sex/gender by masculine forms (which, conventionally and grammatically is advised) leads to asymmetry, i.e. masculine is a norm and feminine is invisible. Because of that, gender-neutral pronouns have been introduced to the language. However, none of these has become popular enough to start to be used by an ordinary English user. And thus, a problem appears. If one wishes to avoid sexist language, what should (he/she/s/he/they/ze/one/...) do? This article intends to examine, basing on Facebook, how social media deal with this problem of generics.

Lose one's life and lose one's job with singular they: two constructions, two regional varieties, many practical aspects of working with mega-corpora

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Rudnicka K.

Forum Filologiczne Ateneum

2020

vol. 8

issue 1

149-162

Artykuł porównuje użycie zaimka they w odniesieniu do podmiotów w liczbie pojedynczej z dwiema, z punktu widzenia morfologicznego podobnymi do siebie, konstrukcjami w wariancie brytyjskim i amerykańskim języka angielskiego. Badane konstrukcje to lose one’s life [stracić życie] i lose one’s job [stracić pracę]. Uzyskane wyniki sugerują, że they odnoszące się do liczby pojedynczej jest bardziej rozpowszechnione w amerykańskim wariancie języka angielskiego niż w brytyjskim. Dodatkowym celem artykułu jest zaprezentowanie i przedyskutowanie praktycznych aspektów pracy z dużymi korpusami językowymi. Praca wskazuje w których miejscach badania ilościowe muszą iść w parze z badaniami jakościowymi. Korpusy zastosowane do wykonania badania to Brytyjski Korpus Narodowy (BNC) i Amerykański Korpus Współczesnego Języka Angielskiego (COCA).

The paper compares the usage of singular they with two morphologically similar constructions in British and American English. The constructions in question are lose one’s life and lose one’s job. The results obtained suggest that singular they, at least used with the two constructions in focus of this work, seems to be more widely used in the American variety of English than in the British variety. An additional aim of this work is to present and discuss some practical aspects of working with mega-corpora. The work shows how and where quantitative language studies need to be accompanied by manual and qualitative investigations. The corpora used in this work are the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA).

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GENERICS PROBLEM AND SOCIAL MEDIA: THE USE OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS IN FACEBOOK APPS

Lose one's life and lose one's job with singular they: two constructions, two regional varieties, many practical aspects of working with mega-corpora