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Textual Differences in Game Reviews Written by Men and Women
Dalarna University, School of Languages and Media Studies, English.
2011 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor)Student thesis
Abstract [en]

The aim of this essay is to examine the differences in language use between the genders in game reviews, to find whether there are differences in the use of the language depending on gender. Both sexist language and technical aspects are examined, the technical aspects of writing have been chosen from previous research about gendered differences in writing. The reviews are randomly chosen but the games are selected. There is an equal amount of games with male and female main characters, and the number of reviews is chosen according to the number of reviews written by females, as there are fewer of them, and thus easier to find a matching number of reviews written by males rather than vice versa. The reviews are then examined to find sexist language and differences. This essay finds that there is sexist language in the writing of both genders, such as marked language, but only when the main character of the game is female. Both genders tend to focus on the appearance of female characters and the characteristics of male characters, but there is no known previous research about male and female game characters to compare these results to. However, the technical differences remain consistent with previous research on the same subject, such as female reviewers using more pronouns than male reviewers, and male reviewers using fewer verbs than female reviewers.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Falun, 2011. , p. 41
Keywords [en]
game, games, gender, reviews, men, women, difference, similarity
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-6266OAI: oai:dalea.du.se:6266DiVA, id: diva2:519184
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Humanities, Theology
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Available from: 2012-01-27 Created: 2012-01-27 Last updated: 2012-04-24Bibliographically approved

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