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The Linguistic Portrayal of Women in Written Afrikaans from 1911 to 2010
Dissertation (MA (Linguistics))--University of Pretoria, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/83847 The Linguistic Portrayal of Women in Written Afrikaans from 1911 to 2010 Pilon, Suléne natallie.thompson@gmail.com Thompson, Natalie Lisa Linguistics Corpus linguistics Afrikaans language community quantitative data analysis corpus data analyses UCTD Dissertation (MA (Linguistics))--University of Pretoria, 2021. This corpus-based study investigated what written Afrikaans had historically been ‘telling’ its readers about gender, and specifically about women. The investigation examined the frequency, collocation and concordance lines of feminine, masculine and epicene nouns in the Historical Corpus of Standard Afrikaans (Kirsten 2016) spanning the time period 1911-2010. The study was conducted because there is limited research available that examines the portrayal of gender in Afrikaans across an extended time period. Corpus linguistics was used as a methodology to extract and evaluate data. The extracted data were analysed using quantitative data analysis, specifically descriptive statistics methods that included normalised frequency and MI score. The data were interpreted using qualitative analysis methods to explain the findings observed in the corpus data analyses. The qualitative analysis method used was content analysis, this method considered context and sociocultural factors within the Afrikaans language community. The findings of the study pointed to Afrikaans’ movement toward gender parity. Firstly, the frequency of the feminine nouns decreased across the time period, with masculine nouns increasingly used to refer to women. Secondly, the most statistically significant collocates emphasised gender marking and highlighted the overall precedence of masculine nouns over feminine nouns. Lastly, the concordance lines indicated the linguistic inequality in the patterns of use, as women were frequently described pejoratively with unfavourable adjectival collocates. Afrikaans MA (Linguistics) Unrestricted 2022-02-14T08:49:56Z 2022-02-14T08:49:56Z 2022-04 2021 Dissertation * A2022 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/83847 en_US © 2022 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Linguistics Corpus linguistics Afrikaans language community quantitative data analysis corpus data analyses UCTD The Linguistic Portrayal of Women in Written Afrikaans from 1911 to 2010 |
| title | The Linguistic Portrayal of Women in Written Afrikaans from 1911 to 2010 |
| title_full | The Linguistic Portrayal of Women in Written Afrikaans from 1911 to 2010 |
| title_fullStr | The Linguistic Portrayal of Women in Written Afrikaans from 1911 to 2010 |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Linguistic Portrayal of Women in Written Afrikaans from 1911 to 2010 |
| title_short | The Linguistic Portrayal of Women in Written Afrikaans from 1911 to 2010 |
| title_sort | linguistic portrayal of women in written afrikaans from 1911 to 2010 |
| topic | Linguistics Corpus linguistics Afrikaans language community quantitative data analysis corpus data analyses UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/83847 |