男女の言葉遣い. For questions about gender-specific speech or how to address or refer to people depending on their gender. Note that Japanese doesn't have grammatical gender.
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Is interjection ねえ、ねえ gender agnostic?
Is ねえ、ねえ used by males, females or both?
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Gender disparity in use of terms for children (女の子, 男の子) for adults
According to a paper I read some time ago for a class, words such as 女の子、女子 etc. are sometimes used for adults, where the coordinate male terms would generally not be used. Do we have some evidence for this? I'm not disinclined to believe the…
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Use of 自分 in terms of dialect, formality, and gender
I was wondering in terms of Tokyo dialect, if there is a difference in gender and formality in the use of 自分 as a reflexive pronoun 'I'?
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