MILLENNIALS’ PERCEPTIONS OF GENDERED LANGUAGE FEATURES OF FACEBOOK COMMUNICATION

• Main Authors: Fung, Kirstie Tet Mei, Ting, Su Hie, Chuah, Kee Man
• Format: Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: HQ The family. Marriage. Woman; P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36599/1/Kirstie%20Tet%20Mei%20Fung.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/36599/; http://www.conference.unimas.my/2021/icls2021/index.php/programme/icls2021-proceedings

The study examined millennials’ perceptions of gendered language features in Facebook communication. A total of 60 millennials were presented with samples of Facebook messages and asked to guess the gender of the writer, and to give reasons for identifying the writer as female or male. The results s...