This paper explores novel ways in which Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Studies (DHA – the discourse-historical approach), and Feminist Linguistics can be fruitfully combined and thus contribute to a new awareness and knowledge concerning language and gender in discourse. For the paper a large heritage corpus of texts on mountaineering (Alpenwort – Corpus of the Austrian Alpine Club Journal) is explored, which constitutes a type of discourse that has yet rarely been studied in the abovementioned fi elds. The corpus was used to analyse gendered nomination with the following questions in mind: What frequently occurring patterns and typical ways of producing gendered nomination can be observed? How are the binary categories ‘female’ and ‘male’ linguistically produced and reinforced in these texts? These questions are answered using standard corpus linguistic methods: for example, gendered key items are determined via historical keyness-analysis; the concept of c-collocates and the method UFA (Usage Fluctuation Analysis) are used to trace how the meaning of such key items develops over time. These procedures reveal salient patterns of gender referencing that are then interpreted with the background of the DHA framework and can thus contribute to the investigation of gender bias in sports/leisure discourse.
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The study deals with proper names in former Eastern Sudeten caves (The Na Špičáku Cave and The Na Pomezí Cave) from the perspective of diachrony. It investigates the changes of the names over time, especially in the interwar period and the post-war period. The tradition of studying speleonyms on the Czech/European scales is presented in the introduction and the study shows the basic classification of speleonyms. Furthermore, it characterizes both inspected localities. Collecting data was performed in a qualitative way via semi-structured interviews with respondents. At the end of the study, the partial results of the research in every examined locality are presented and generalized.
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