Frequency of Adjectives in Male and Female Speech in the Contemporary Television Drama Series “Homeland”:
Frequency of Adjectives in Male and Female Speech in the Contemporary Television Drama Series “Homeland”:
A Corpus Study
Author(s): Marian ŻmigrodzkiSubject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies, Sociology, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Theory of Communication
Published by: Krakowskie Towarzystwo Popularyzowania Wiedzy o Komunikacji Językowej Tertium
Keywords: sociolinguistics; gender; male/female language; adjectives;corpus-based study;
Summary/Abstract: The paper addresses issues related to language and gender, and discusses research on the frequency of adjectives in language of male and female characters in a TV drama series “Homeland”. The empirical part of the study uses as its theoretical background the classic works in the field (Lakoff 1975; Butler 1990; Meyerhoff 2006), which identify gender specific language features and define factors that determine male-female language differences. The research was conducted manually, with a limited support of electronic tools, on a personally created language corpus consisting of dialogue lines from the TV show. The results clearly show that the frequency of adjectives in female speech in the context of the TV series is higher than in male speech in the analyzed corpus.
Journal: Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium
- Issue Year: 6/2021
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 1-16
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English