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The language of men and women in media texts is analysed in this master thesis. The two created corpora include texts since 2002 to 2009 and they have 3 177 706 words. The aim of the thesis is to investigate the language of men and women in media texts. The following tasks were raised to achieve this aim: to collect men and women articles and create corpora, to find out what specific features of both spoken and written language of men and women are, to analyze the specific features of men and women language, to examine gender differences in language developed on the basis of corpus data and find out whether it is possible to understand the author's gender from the identified text features. Men and women media texts were investigated under 10 features of formal language, grammatical and lexical attributes: vocabulary and words longitude, commonly used words and part of speech, themes, uncertainty and doubts expression, feelings of resolution, colors expression, negatives, usage of diminutives and citations of other people. After analysis of men and women articles, it was identified that men use slightly longer words and men's articles are longer texts. Although the average length of words in articles by women is lower, they use more very long tokens (19−25 characters). Thus they use more complex structure of words in shorter texts. Women also use richer vocabulary as their type-token ratio index is higher. Women write more emotional articles and they use more interjections and onomatopoeic interjections, diminutives, exclamatory and exclamatory-interrogative sentences and their language is softer. It is very important for women, that text would be imaginative, so they use more color specifications, names of feelings and describe all in more detail. It was found that lexical differences in articles are related to the article's topic. Women write articles mostly about children, home, family, health, social issues and culture, while men − about politics, business and economy. People attribute all these topics to the stereotypes of men and women language, but it appears that such stereotypes reveal the real situation. In conclusion it can be said that there are many differences in men and women texts. Of course, some features are also influenced by an individual author's style, but if given a text of an unknown author it is possible to name the author's gender based on the language feature of men and women.

The language of men and women in media texts is analysed in this master thesis. The two created corpora include texts since 2002 to 2009 and they have 3 177 706 words. The aim of the thesis is to investigate the language of men and women in media texts. The following tasks were raised to achieve this aim: to collect men and women articles and create corpora, to find out what specific features of both spoken and written language of men and women are, to analyze the specific features of men and women language, to examine gender differences in language developed on the basis of corpus data and find out whether it is possible to understand the author's gender from the identified text features. Men and women media texts were investigated under 10 features of formal language, grammatical and lexical attributes: vocabulary and words longitude, commonly used words and part of speech, themes, uncertainty and doubts expression, feelings of resolution, colors expression, negatives, usage of diminutives and citations of other people. After analysis of men and women articles, it was identified that men use slightly longer words and men's articles are longer texts. Although the average length of words in articles by women is lower, they use more very long tokens (19−25 characters). Thus they use more complex structure of words in shorter texts. Women also use richer vocabulary as their type-token ratio index is higher. Women write more emotional articles and they use more interjections and onomatopoeic interjections, diminutives, exclamatory and exclamatory-interrogative sentences and their language is softer. It is very important for women, that text would be imaginative, so they use more color specifications, names of feelings and describe all in more detail. It was found that lexical differences in articles are related to the article's topic. Women write articles mostly about children, home, family, health, social issues and culture, while men − about politics, business and economy. People attribute all these topics to the stereotypes of men and women language, but it appears that such stereotypes reveal the real situation. In conclusion it can be said that there are many differences in men and women texts. Of course, some features are also influenced by an individual author's style, but if given a text of an unknown author it is possible to name the author's gender based on the language feature of men and women.

The language of men and women in media texts is analysed in this master thesis. The two created corpora include texts since 2002 to 2009 and they have 3 177 706 words. The aim of the thesis is to investigate the language of men and women in media texts. The following tasks were raised to achieve this aim: to collect men and women articles and create corpora, to find out what specific features of both spoken and written language of men and women are, to analyze the specific features of men and women language, to examine gender differences in language developed on the basis of corpus data and find out whether it is possible to understand the author's gender from the identified text features. Men and women media texts were investigated under 10 features of formal language, grammatical and lexical attributes: vocabulary and words longitude, commonly used words and part of speech, themes, uncertainty and doubts expression, feelings of resolution, colors expression, negatives, usage of diminutives and citations of other people. After analysis of men and women articles, it was identified that men use slightly longer words and men's articles are longer texts. Although the average length of words in articles by women is lower, they use more very long tokens (19−25 characters). Thus they use more complex structure of words in shorter texts. Women also use richer vocabulary as their type-token ratio index is higher. Women write more emotional articles and they use more interjections and onomatopoeic interjections, diminutives, exclamatory and exclamatory-interrogative sentences and their language is softer. It is very important for women, that text would be imaginative, so they use more color specifications, names of feelings and describe all in more detail. It was found that lexical differences in articles are related to the article's topic. Women write articles mostly about children, home, family, health, social issues and culture, while men − about politics, business and economy. People attribute all these topics to the stereotypes of men and women language, but it appears that such stereotypes reveal the real situation. In conclusion it can be said that there are many differences in men and women texts. Of course, some features are also influenced by an individual author's style, but if given a text of an unknown author it is possible to name the author's gender based on the language feature of men and women.