sports

The Use of Gendered Language in Interviews of Male and Female Athletes

Julia Offerman, Isabelle Sandback, Samantha Morgan, and Niki Agarwal Societal viewpoints regarding sports can be partially attributed to gender bias in sports commentating and interviews. This is true even for tennis, which has become very gender-inclusive in terms of media coverage, as well as respect for female athletes. Still, many studies have found biases in […]

content analysis, gender bias, gender differences, Media, sports

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Are some NBA slang terms too vague? Absolutely!

Sociolinguistics

Isaac Verdugo, Riley Kwinn, Brendan Xiong, and Gustavo Gutierrez NBA (National Basketball Association) slang is widely used by basketball fans all over the world. NBA slang is formed and developed with NBA history. It has unique features and functions that give NBA fans the opportunity to express their opinions about the game of basketball in

corpus analysis, semantic, Slang, social media, sports

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