An interdisciplinary corpus-based gender analysis in the use of indefinite adjectives

This study had been carried out in order to compare the usage of the indefinite adjectives (INAs) of Turkish speakers (TSs) of English and native speakers (NSs) of English in between ELT and Psychology departments regarding gender. The study also aimed to obtain the results by limiting the comparison with the randomly selected MA theses' findings and the conclusion sections between the years 2016-2020. In order to provide equality in the determination of master's theses, there were 60 native and 60 Turkish writers, each consisting of 30 ELT and 30 Psychology departments, with three female writers and three male writers each year in both fields. A qualitative and descriptive analysis had been done to evaluate the results of the study. Key Word in Context (KWIC) Concordance programme had been used to analyze the collected data. INAs were analyzed in terms of percentages, frequencies per 1,000 words. The significant difference in the INAs usage was calculated by the log-likelihood (LL) value. According to the final results, although the corpus size was almost equal to each other in the findings section, the female writers in the ELT department demonstrated overuse compared to the Psychology department. On the other hand, the conclusion section results differed from the findings section. In the usage of the INAs, a significant difference in the Psychology department was observed. The general comment was that the gender analysis did not make a significant difference in either section.