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We created a Sport Corpus to discover if there is a difference in how males and females are represented in the language of sport. Here are 5 facts we learned.
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but rarely appear for males.
in a sport context,
are common collocations for females females in a sport context,
and marriage status
...Age
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male counterpart ‘gentleman’.
is used twice as much than the
...The traditional word ‘lady’
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than women in context of sport.
to be mentioned
...Men are three times more likely
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Women collocate with verbs such as ‘compete’,
and ‘strive’.
‘participate’
‘compete’,
,‘beat’.
‘dominate’
‘win’,
...Men collocate with competitive verbs such as
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GOLFER
WOMAN
the assumed default.
suggesting a male is
(for example, woman golfer),
in sports
...Gender marking is commonly used for female participants
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