The boundaries of language and gender revisitedperfoming gender in social networks

  1. Antonio García Gómez 1
  2. Fátima Garrido Pozo 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Alcalá
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    Universidad de Alcalá

    Alcalá de Henares, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04pmn0e78

Zeitschrift:
Odisea: Revista de estudios ingleses

ISSN: 1578-3820

Datum der Publikation: 2015

Nummer: 16

Seiten: 39-58

Art: Artikel

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Zusammenfassung

Social networks have been evolving throughout time not just as a tool to socialize or interact, but as a fundamental system that helps people develop their lives Among social network users, adolescents are, without any doubt, those who are more dependent on technology in general terms and social media in particular They not only use it to connect to each other, but also to update and to evaluate what they hear, read and do both on- and offline. This research uses Facebook posts from British and Spanish male and female teenagers in order to explore these teenagers’ practices of social networking More precisely, the main aim of the current study is not only to analyse similarities and differences in the ways male and female teenagers communicate online, but also to uncover the different linguistic strategies they use to relate to others The analysis gives evidence that there is a fine line in the use of positive and negative politeness strategies according to gender when negotiating conversational topics online

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