Gender Differences In Language Use On Weblogs
Abstract
Blog writing is not totally the same as that in books and newspapers. It is a language form between speech and writing
as bloggers are having a kind of conversation with their online friends through their posts. This is a brief research into gendered
language features of blog writing which will tell something more than previous studies on speech and writing.
as bloggers are having a kind of conversation with their online friends through their posts. This is a brief research into gendered
language features of blog writing which will tell something more than previous studies on speech and writing.
Keywords
Gender features; Weblogs; Choice of themes
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v6i9.4805
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