Gender, Genre, and Writing Style in Formal Written Texts

http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel/papers/male-female-text-final.pdf

Abstract.
This paper explores differences between male and female writing in a large subset of the
British National Corpus covering a range of genres. Several classes of simple lexical and
syntactic features that differ substantially according to author gender are identified, both in
fiction and in non-fiction documents. In particular, we find significant differences between
male- and female-authored documents in the use of pronouns and certain types of noun
modifiers: although the total number of nominals used by male and female authors is virtually
identical, females use many more pronouns and males use many more noun specifiers. More
generally , it is found that even in formal writing, female writing exhibits greater usage of
features identified by previous researchers as "involved" while male writing exhibits greater
usage of features which have been identified as "informational". Finally, a strong correlation
between the characteristics of male (female) writing and those of nonfiction (fiction) is
demonstrated.

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Gender, Genre, and Writing Style in Formal Written Texts

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