Gendered discourses in Twitter, Mexico City

A corpus-based study

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4151/S0718-09342025011901314

Keywords:

Corpus linguistics, language and gender, social media

Abstract

Gendered discourses are still relevant to the field of study addressing language and gender. Many studies have been conducted to analyse this type of discourses in their written and oral dimensions. However, there is a gap in the literature when it comes to their digital dimension. In this sense, this corpus-based study, using a pilot corpus (Corpus Twitter CDMX), seeks to explore language patters produced in Twitter (now X) in order to identify frequencies verifying gendered discourses in social media. So as to generalize the data, the esTenTen2018 Mexican domain .mx, was used as a reference corpus. Findings suggest that different classifications of gendered discourses are in fact present in Twitter, such as gender differences, gender violence, employment opportunities, fatherhood, and compulsory heterosexuality. Additionally, discourses of femininity consumption were found in adjective-noun the language pattern beautiful women, co-occurrence which scored the highest statistical significance (LogDice 6.0 and 5.1).

Author Biography

César Antonio Aguilar

I was born in 1972 in Coatzacoalcos (Veracruz, México), a city where I stayed for some months (obviously, I don't have clear memories about it), until my mother decided to return to the city of Xalapa. I lived there a long period: since 1973 (I guess) until 2000.

Today, I am an Assitant Professor of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the Department of Language Sciences of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Also I am Professor of the Master of Technological Management of Information and Library (Spanish, MPGI), as well as the Master of Translation on the same University. I live in Santiago since 2011.

I am member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI) of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología CONACYT, México. Here, I am subscribed to the group: Mexican Researchers in Other Countries. Mi current level is the First (I). 

Previously, for a year (2010, August/2011, Juny) I was an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics of the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (México). In the same Department I did a postdoc before since 2009 until 2010.

Broadly, my main line of research is the NLP. In particular, I put attention in the following sub-areas:

1. Building of ontologies and taxonomies based on textual information
2. Computational Lexicography
3. Formal Semantics
4. Definitional Context Extraction
5. Corpus Linguistics
6. Formal and Stochastic Grammars for Spanish

Regarding to my formation, I have a Ph. D. in Linguistcs from the Postgraduate School of Linguistics of the UNAM (México). In the same School I received a M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics. My Master Dissertation ―which was focused to the description of syntactic and semantic patterns of development on children narratives― was supervised by Dr. Rebeca Barriga Villanueva, a linguist affiliated to El Colegio de México. Rebeca is a pionner researcher on the studies of Language Development in Mexican Children, and also she is the coordinator of LINGMEX Project, a bibliographic database with all possible references to the papers, books and thesis on Linguistics in México.

In addition, I have a Bachelor Degree in Hispanic Language and Literature by the Universidad Veracruzana (UV), where also I was a research assistant in the Institute of Education Researchs, under the supervision of Sergio Téllez.

In 2002 I joined the Language Engineering Group (in Spanish, GIL). The GIL is a research group affiliated to Engineering Institute of UNAM. It is worth mentioning that my work in the GIL has a special importance in my academic development. The Leader of this Group, Dr. Gerardo Sierra, was also my Ph. D. Supervisor. Currently, Gerardo and I have a close collaboration on NLP research, producing several papers, book chapters and projects.

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Published

2025-12-15

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Núñez Mercado, C., & Aguilar, C. A. (2025). Gendered discourses in Twitter, Mexico City: A corpus-based study. Revista Signos. Estudios De Lingüística, 58(119). https://doi.org/10.4151/S0718-09342025011901314

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Vol. 58 No. 119 (2025): December

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