Gendering Nationhood: A Computational Analysis of Gendered Language in Nation-Invoking Discourse 1800-2000

• In Event: Computational Methodologies in Analyzing Political Discourse

Brief Overview

This study examines the 400-million-word COHA corpus and eight editions of Encyclopaedia Britannica, revealing that “nation” is predominantly represented as masculine, though this effect lessens on individual national entities.

Author

• Yutong Zhu, The University of Chicago