| Title: | Gender difference in children's language |
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| Authors: | ID Rošer, Irena (Author) |
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| Files: |  http://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-D0LWBETC
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Not categorized |
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| Typology: | 1.02 - Review Article |
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| Organization: | UPR - University of Primorska
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| Abstract: | Up to the present day the gender difference in children's language has been studied by various researchers. The amount of research done, the differences in methods used, and the contradictory results raise questions about the initial idea - Are there gender based differences in childrenćs language? If there are, how are they demonstrated and what are they? What are the best research methods? Does the gender language difference in childhood, in any way, influence language skills in adulthood? The questions being so complex, it is impossible to cover all the areas mentioned above. What I want to do in this contribution is to summarize the actual research done in this field until today. I present a few theories that have been available over the last fifty years and I have given various research models and methods in order to cover this topic. The actual results are not surprising: differences do exist and the variations are huge. However the amount of gender innateness and the social influence of gender stereotypes create difficulties in measuring separately the difference in language caused by gender. We therefore, need to go back to the original biological and social questions of what makes a male male and what makes a female female. In the same way, all the other individual differences in children are posited under the same question - Are they a part of gender difference or is gender difference only a small part of the whole individual forming his or her personality? |
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| Keywords: | language, gender differences, innateness, social environment, girl's stereotypes, boy's stereotypes, language styles |
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| Publisher: | Centro di ricerche scientifiche della Repubblica di Slovenia |
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| Year of publishing: | 2007 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 197-206 |
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| Numbering: | Letn. 17, št. 1 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/RUP-5236  |
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| ISSN: | 1408-5348 |
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| UDC: | 81'27:159.922.1-053.2 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 1259987 |
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| Publication date in RUP: | 10.07.2015 |
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