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Schema-Based Analysis of Gendered Self-Disclosure in Persian: Writing for Dating Context

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  • Ebrahim Khodadady
  • Somayeh Javadi Mehr

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This paper reports a textual analysis of letters written by 21 male and 21 female participants in Persian. Each writer wrote two letters, one to a dating service and another one to a hypothetical person chosen and introduced by the center. Therefore, a total of 84 letters were collected from the participants. Schema theory was used to find the possible gendered differences between male and female self-disclosure letters. The results of this study confirmed that men and women used significantly different semantic, syntactic and parasyntactic schemata (X2 = 30.37, df = 2, p <.0001), they also wrote differently in terms of the type of schemata forming the genera of the domains. Further descriptive analysis indicated that semantic domain accounted for 74.44% of all schema types used in male letters and 78.98% of the schemata used in female letters.

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  • Ebrahim Khodadady & Somayeh Javadi Mehr, 2012. "Schema-Based Analysis of Gendered Self-Disclosure in Persian: Writing for Dating Context," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 5(1), pages 1-20, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:eltjnl:v:5:y:2012:i:1:p:20
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