Summary
This research will indagate
tweetsTweets whose authors are cis-gender and transgender and or transsexual Japanese women, to determine the current usage of Japanese women’s language or joseigo in the social media setting. The lexical features of joseigo will become the tool to measure the amount of importance given to the ideology behind such genderlect . Firstly, many authors point out that joseigo is an ideological construct voiced mainly through popular media, conversely disseminating stereotypical notions of women and femininity. It represents, thus, a way for women to conform to society’s expectations by harnessing joseigo language patterns. In that case, this fact may mean that transgender women will wield joseigo as a means to further project femininity.
This paper will describe the usage of the lexical features in a social media context, namely Twitter,\. The sample will be comprised of
20 Japanese women Twitter users, taking approximately 100 tweetsTweets from each user. To analyze joseigo usage against general usage, we will take advantage of Corpus linguistics tools to compare the most stereotypical lexical items. Correspondingly, we will also describe women’s speech problematic implications as it normalizes gender stereotypes and prevents women from being on equal ground with men.

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