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Guy, Guys, and Gender Neutrality

Guy, Guys, and Gender Neutrality. Sean McLennan Indiana University CLS 40 April 15, 2004. Introduction. A server in a restaurant: “Good evening! Can I get you guys something to drink?”. Corpus Analysis. E-mail chosen for colloquial nature static community restricted demographics

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Guy, Guys, and Gender Neutrality

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  1. Guy, Guys, andGender Neutrality Sean McLennan Indiana University CLS 40 April 15, 2004

  2. Introduction A server in a restaurant: “Good evening! Can I get you guys something to drink?” 040415 - Sean McLennan - CLS 40

  3. Corpus Analysis E-mail chosen for • colloquial nature • static community • restricted demographics • known community where referents are more clearly interpretable • computational tractability 040415 - Sean McLennan - CLS 40

  4. Corpus Analysis • 1879 e-mail messages sent to a closed list • approx. 70 participants (primarily Canadian undergraduate students) • nearly equal gender ratio • November 1998 - October 2002 040415 - Sean McLennan - CLS 40

  5. Corpus Analysis Factors examined: • number: singular vs. plural • grammatical position: subject, object, indirect object, vocative • phrasal co-occurrence: determiners, ‘you’, ‘hey/hi’ etc. • gender composition of referent: male, female, mixed, unknown, genderless 040415 - Sean McLennan - CLS 40

  6. total = 526 73% 23% Corpus Analysis: Results 040415 - Sean McLennan - CLS 40

  7. Number Gram. Pos. Phrase Co-occ. 98% ‘you’ 3% ‘you’ Corpus Analysis: Results 040415 - Sean McLennan - CLS 40

  8. Corpus Analysis: Results Accounts for 98% of the recorded instances 040415 - Sean McLennan - CLS 40

  9. Discussion used as a generic: * current study † Graham (1975) 040415 - Sean McLennan - CLS 40

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