“Dude” and “Dudette”, “Bro” and “Sis”: A Diachronic Study of Four Address Terms in the TV Corpus

This corpus linguistics study offers a diachronic perspective on masculine and feminine address terms by analyzing the frequencies of the pairs “dude”/”dudette” and “bro”/”sis” in the 325 million-word TV Corpus. Results show an increase of the frequency of “dude” and “bro”, a quasi-absence of “dudet...

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Published in:	Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
Main Author:	Marie Flesch
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Institute of English Studies 2023-09-01
Subjects:	corpus linguistics diachrony address terms gender
Online Access:	https://anglica-journal.com/resources/html/article/details?id=614365

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