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Record W2942473185 · doi:10.5430/wjel.v9n2p8

Gender and Power of Language in A Passage to India by Edward Forster

2019· article· en· W2942473185 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueWorld Journal of English Language · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLiterary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLinguisticsMeaning (existential)FeelingVocabularyDominance (genetics)PolitenessTone (literature)PsychologyFocus (optics)Computer scienceSocial psychology

Abstract

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In this research, the main issue is to illustrate the huge differences between female and male characters’ choice of words and their linguistic and psychological effect of the novel’s A Passage to India by Forster (1924). The researchers have set some questions and attempted to answer them through using qualitative methods endorsed by Potter's (1999) and Lakoff's (1973). These qualitative methods are the ones which focus on vocabulary, word analysis, and word meaning. The main concern of these methods is to gather non-numerical data proofing our main idea even more by giving examples from the incidents in the novel. They also refer to the meanings, concepts, definitions, characteristics, metaphors, symbols, and description of things. The research comes out with some important findings. It is revealed that words alone do deliver the whole meaning. However, it is demonstrated that gender, body language, words of politeness, and punctuations that show the tone of voice do help words convey their effect more clearly. It is also found that females have strong tendency to use descriptive words to express their feelings. This makes females' language more pleasant than males'. It is further noticed that females use tag questions more commonly to seek approval. On the other hand, it is observed that males produce formal sentences to realize and ascertain dominance in their speech.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.529
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.210 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it