78: Forensic Linguistics, Really (with Helen Fraser, Georgina Heydon, Diana Eades, Seán Roberts, and Steph Rennick)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
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The Meaning of Conferred Gender in a Game
We're tracking something called conferred gender, which is essentially the gender that you're treated as being. So we what we're trying to track is the average players experience some of that's culturally relative. In some cases there just isn't evidence. And in others, it's really game specific. There might be like alien races that don't have obvious gender signifiers from the perspective of our world. They were all very context specific.
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