Gender Features of Politicians' Statements in Social Networks

Student: Egorova Alina

Supervisor: Alexey Malafeev

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Applied Linguistics (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2019

The research is devoted to the analysis of politicians' statements in social networks to see whether there are lexical gender tokens. During the research by means of the AntConc program four corpuses belonging to 40 politicians of both sexes were analysed. For the achieved results interpretation an attempt to make speech portraits of politicians on the basis of the lexical features revealed in texts was made.

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