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A recent, detailed analysis of the ways in which gender categories are constructed in spoken discourse indicates the continuing social relevance of the choice between girls and women (Stokoe 1998). In the present paper, we examine recent trends in the use of girls for adults in corpora of written English.
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Sigley et al. (2002) studied this question.
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