Twitter Investigation

A2 English Language: Investigating Language on Twitter

Introduction:

I predict that women will be more emotional when tweeting because this is the common stereotype.

Reason: It can be easily compared to male tweets.

Links to language and gender because of the stereotypes associated to men and women.

Methodology:

Every third tweet was used in order to make my data unbiased.

I didn’t cherry pick tweets to fit my hypothesis as this would have made my investigation biased and unreliable.

A limitation of my tweets could be the length of them because they may be too short in order for me to analyse it.

Analysis:

In my findings I have found that women are more likely to use facts and opinions to show emotion however, men tend to use more rhetorical questions to show emotions. This proved my hypothesis correct although not in the way I expected as I expected women to be overly emotional due to the common stereotype between emotions and women. I also found out that women tend to be more with the reader when tweeting while men are more likely to be against the reader.

Conclusion and Evaluation:

My findings have proved my hypothesis because women are more emotional than men. However, they do this by using lots of facts and opinions rather than being emotional throughout due to the common stereotype between women and emotions.

I think that my investigation was very successful as the data I collected was able to be easily analysed meaning that I was able to prove my hypothesis.

For the Future:

Length of tweets were often too short although I was able to analyse all of the tweets I collected.