In:Cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English
Anna Finzel
[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts 17] 2025
► pp. xvii–xx
Published online: 12 September 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.17.lot
https://doi.org/10.1075/clscc.17.lot
List of tables
Table 1.Stratification of the IndE sample (N = 25; all with university background; Ø age = 24.4 years)24
Table 2.Stratification of the NigE sample (N = 26; all with university background; Ø age = 22.3 years)25
Table 3.Stratification of the BrE sample (N = 22; all but one with university background; Ø age = 27.2 years)25
Table 4.Set-up of the three subcorpora compiled from the sociolinguistic interviews41
Table 5.Word lists with the most frequent lemmas in the three subcorpora normalised per 1,000 words (minimum normalised frequency
Nnorm ≥ 2.0)44
Table 6.Comparison of tokens of woman- and man-related lemmas (i.e. lemmas from the domains
woman and man) across the three subcorpora normalised per 1,000 words. Negative values indicate that tokens
of man-related lemmas are more frequent45
Table 7.Most frequent collocates with the lemmas woman and she (collocates above the threshold of
1.0% indicated in boldface)47
Table 8.Most frequent collocates with the lemmas man and he (collocates above the threshold of 1.0%
indicated in boldface)49
Table 9.Conceptualisations pertaining to space normalised per 10,000 words53
Table 10.Conceptualisations of woman and man in the IndE subcorpus according to power relations and sorted by umbrella
conceptualisations (occurrences normalised per 10,000 words in parentheses)70
Table 11.Conceptualisations of woman and man in the NigE subcorpus according to power relations and sorted by umbrella
conceptualisations (occurrences normalised per 10,000 words in parentheses)75
Table 12.Normalised frequencies of umbrella conceptualisations pertaining to woman and man in the three
subcorpora79
Table 13.Differences in the weighting of [+power]- and [−power]-conceptualisations of woman and man
in the three subcorpora. In the bottom row, negative values indicate that man-related conceptualisations are more
frequent80
Table 14.Word lists with the most frequent lemmas in the IndE hijra-corpus (minimum frequency N ≥ 15)84
Table 15.Results of the pronoun analysis for the lemmas they and we86
Table 16.Conceptualisations pertaining to hijra in the IndE subcorpus88
Table 17.Conceptualisations in the IndE hijra-corpus which locate the hijras in relation to society93
Table 18.Word lists for interview question 4 with the most frequent lemmas in the three subcorpora, normalised per 1,000 words (minimum
normalised frequency Nnorm ≥ 2.0)155
Table 19.Most frequent collocates with the lemmas homosexual, lesbian and gay (collocates above the
threshold of 1 instance indicated in boldface)157
Table 20.Conceptualisations pertaining to homosexuality in the IndE subcorpus160
Table 21.Conceptualisations pertaining to homosexuality in the NigE subcorpus162
Table 22.Conceptualisations pertaining to homosexuality in the BrE subcorpus162
Table 23.Results from the association task in the online study. The weight value indicates the likeliness of each informant to mention
the given association (number of informants: IndE N = 9; NigE N = 17; BrE
N = 22)173
Table 24.Results from the item-linking task in the online study174
