The Use of Gender Based Language: A Corpus Study of Text Among Pakistani Male and Female Bloggers

Abstract

The present paper explores relationship of gender and language use in the blogs of male and
female Pakistani bloggers. The different use of language by members of different genders
highlights the different roles which are assigned by society to members of different gender
communities. The members of different gender communities approach their societal settings all
together differently due to their different life styles and living experiences in a society. The
purpose of the present study is to explore the language of male and female Pakistani bloggers
indicative of their gender differences in their blog writing. The present study adopts a corpus
based methodology to examine the different use of wh-questions, and first person singular
pronouns in language of male and female bloggers demonstrative of their gender identities and
the roles which are assigned to them by the society in an objective and coherent way.