Gender and genre variation in weblogs

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 439-459

  Herring, Susan C ^a   Paolillo, John C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMC; Gender; Genre; Style; Text classification; Variation; Weblog

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747267399     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2006.00287.x     Document Type: Article

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