Women, Who Climb - A Corpus Linguistic Tour Description with Potential Danger Zones

This paper explores novel ways in which Corpus Linguistics, Critical Discourse Studies (DHA – the discourse-historical approach), and Feminist Linguistics can be fruitfully combined thus contribute to a new awareness knowledge concerning language gender discourse. For large heritage corpus of texts on mountaineering (Alpenwort Austrian Alpine Club Journal) is explored, constitutes type discourse that has yet rarely been studied abovementioned fields. The was used analyse gendered nomination with following questions mind: What frequently occurring patterns typical producing observed? How are binary categories ‘female’ ‘male’ linguistically produced reinforced these texts? These answered using standard linguistic methods: for example, key items determined via historical keyness-analysis; concept c-collocates method UFA (Usage Fluctuation Analysis) trace how meaning such develops over time. procedures reveal salient referencing then interpreted background DHA framework investigation bias sports/leisure