Is Japanese Gendered Language used on Twitter? A Large Scale Study

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ID15693899
AuthorsM Iacu (0000-0002-4884-0047, University of Milan, corresponding author), Stefano Maria Iacus, Tiziana CARPI (University of Milan, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume10
Issue4
Pagese202024-e202024
Publication date2020-11-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOnline Journal of Communication and Media Technologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1986-3497 • E-ISSN: 1986-3497
PublisherBastas Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.30935/ojcmt/9141
OpenAlexW3096995232
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited17

This study analyzes the usage of Japanese gendered language on Twitter. Starting from a collection of 408 million Japanese tweets from 2015 till 2019 and an additional sample of 2355 manually classified Twitter accounts timelines into gender and categories (politicians, musicians, etc). A large scale textual analysis is performed on this corpus to identify and examine sentence-final particles (SFPs) and first-person pronouns appearing in the texts. It turns out that gendered language is in fact used also on Twitter, in about 6% of the tweets, and that the prescriptive classification into “male” and “female” language does not always meet the expectations, with remarkable exceptions. Further, SFPs and pronouns show increasing or decreasing trends, indicating an evolution of the language used on Twitter

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