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Methodology note form.

Hypothesis - How does language differ for men and women, when they participate in gender bias sporting activities?    This would involve analysing commentary of live matches or performances or interviews with the athletes; How are the questions constructed differently? Is there different types of language used for different genders? Is the vocabulary different, when describing different gendered athletes? Is one gender favoured over there other for a particular sport? Data will be collected by watching videos from the Olympic games, I will transcribe at least 3 events from each sport, for both men and women. Ethics - The videos are able to view online, so the public is able to view them. Meaning I can analyse not only what is being said but also the atmosphere and peoples reactions without ethically violating them. Reliability - Although the athletes are being the fact they are being film would not affect what they say in the interviews, a...

Friday 7th October - BBC radio 4 video.

*Word of mouth* This podcast how children construct and interpret language, in most cases over extending a term that they already know. Interestingly some parents end up using the child's language in everyday life, meaning that it takes the child longer to differentiate between the wrong and right term.