Publications

Publication details [#55130]

Fullwood, Chris, Morris Neil and Evans Libby. 2011. Linguistic Androgyny on MySpace. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 30 (1) : 114–124.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

appellative | gender | internet | self-representation | stereotype

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study discusses how and why, though men and women communicated in more stereotypically gendered ways in the forum comments on MySpace, linguistic androgyny -a more gender-neutral style- prevailed in the “about me” self-representation sections.