Gendered Representations in Language: A Corpus-Based Comparative Study of Adjective-Noun Collocations for Marital Relationships

In language teaching, a study of the corpora gives teachers access to authentic texts and these is used in real-life communication. Social structures culture-defined representations gender influence sexist or choice words based on bias. Based premise that adjectives as ‘describing words’ help define express human behaviour, attitude psyche, this research paper tries explore compare collocational behaviour using four pairs female male nouns for marital relationships (bachelor spinster, bridegroom bride, husband wife, widower widow) British Indian contexts. Considering noun sequentially represent stages relationship, comparative analysis demonstrate with evidence categorization social identity power distribution, presence sexism usage, analyzes interprets cultural meanings they embody. By examining gendered adjective-noun frequencies dispersions National Corpus (BNC) Kolhapur English (KC), seeks present certain key perspectives two diverse socio-cultural historical backgrounds analyze how by native non-native speakers.