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Discourse Analysis, a discipline within Text Linguistics, helps us understand that every text is a product of the social and cultural context of its time and of a particular group of human beings. There is a specific group that often goes unnoticed in linguistic and discourse studies: children. This study aims to describe the repertoire of adjectives used by a sample of elementary school students used to characterize men and women, analyzing the influence of variables such as gender, school grade, and family type on this repertoire. To carry out this research, a corpus was compiled from responses to a questionnaire in which students had to provide a written description of both sexes. A non-probabilistic sample was used, which was analyzed with a computer tool to observe adjective frequency and describe them qualitatively. Differences were found in how students describe men and women, which could be related to the proposed study variables. These findings demonstrate the influence of social variables on children’s language use.
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