Abstract The article provides a comprehensive overview of attitudes towards nonbinary pronouns, with the aim better understanding why these pronouns are either accepted or rejected. Attitudes they and neopronouns ze xe explored thematic analysis data derived from larger online survey on ( n = 1128). While results demonstrate various polarized stances for both types participants’ reactions highl...

In this paper we describe the (annotation) tools underlying two automatic techniques to analyse the meaning and use of backward causal connectives in large Dutch newspaper corpora. With the help of these techniques, Latent Semantic Analysis and Thematic Text Analysis, the contexts of more than 14,000 connectives were studied. We will focus here on the methods of analysis and on the fairly strai...