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Chapter 3. Talking about women

Elicitation, manual tagging, and semantic tagging in a study of pick-up artists’ referential strategies
  • Daria Dayter und Sofia Rüdiger
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Abstract

In this chapter, we examine how pick-up artists (PUAs; a male community preoccupied with interacting with women) talk about women in their online discourse. To this end, we take and test three approaches: (1) introspection and elicitation, (2) manual tagging of a small specialized corpus, and (3) automatic semantic tagging and reverse collocation of a large corpus of PUA computer-mediated communication. Instead of misogynistic derogatory references to women, which are only used infrequently, we find that PUAs rely on common references (often condescending or objectifying) and on PUA-specific vocabulary. In terms of method, manual tagging turned out most comprehensive, but automatic semantic tagging allowed for the processing of a far bigger dataset with minimal loss of total types retrieved.

Abstract

In this chapter, we examine how pick-up artists (PUAs; a male community preoccupied with interacting with women) talk about women in their online discourse. To this end, we take and test three approaches: (1) introspection and elicitation, (2) manual tagging of a small specialized corpus, and (3) automatic semantic tagging and reverse collocation of a large corpus of PUA computer-mediated communication. Instead of misogynistic derogatory references to women, which are only used infrequently, we find that PUAs rely on common references (often condescending or objectifying) and on PUA-specific vocabulary. In terms of method, manual tagging turned out most comprehensive, but automatic semantic tagging allowed for the processing of a far bigger dataset with minimal loss of total types retrieved.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction. The expanding landscape of corpus-based studies of social media language 1
  4. Part 1. Using corpus methods to investigate communities on social media
  5. Chapter 1. Towards a digital sociolinguistics 15
  6. Chapter 2. The control and censorship of linguistic resources in an online Community of Practice 41
  7. Chapter 3. Talking about women 63
  8. Part II. Linguistic variation in short social media texts
  9. Chapter 4. Patterns of intra-individual variation in a Swiss WhatsApp corpus 89
  10. Chapter 5. Using lengthwise scaling to compare feature frequencies across text lengths on Reddit 111
  11. Chapter 6. Double trouble 131
  12. Part III. The role of images
  13. Chapter 7. Constructing corpora from images and text 149
  14. Chapter 8. Working with images and emoji in the 🦆 Dukki Facebook Corpus 175
  15. Part IV. Discussion
  16. Chapter 9. New developments in corpus approaches to social media 199
  17. Index 209
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.98.03day

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction. The expanding landscape of corpus-based studies of social media language 1
  4. Part 1. Using corpus methods to investigate communities on social media
  5. Chapter 1. Towards a digital sociolinguistics 15
  6. Chapter 2. The control and censorship of linguistic resources in an online Community of Practice 41
  7. Chapter 3. Talking about women 63
  8. Part II. Linguistic variation in short social media texts
  9. Chapter 4. Patterns of intra-individual variation in a Swiss WhatsApp corpus 89
  10. Chapter 5. Using lengthwise scaling to compare feature frequencies across text lengths on Reddit 111
  11. Chapter 6. Double trouble 131
  12. Part III. The role of images
  13. Chapter 7. Constructing corpora from images and text 149
  14. Chapter 8. Working with images and emoji in the 🦆 Dukki Facebook Corpus 175
  15. Part IV. Discussion
  16. Chapter 9. New developments in corpus approaches to social media 199
  17. Index 209
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