His eyes narrowed — her eyes downcast: contrastive corpus-stylistic analysis of female and male writing
This study presents a comparative and cross-linguistic (English and Czech) examination of female and male characters in contemporary British and Czech fiction texts written by female and male authors. We approach the texts within the corpus stylistics framework using four broadly comparable corpo...
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2017-10-01
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| author | Anna Čermáková Lenka Fárová |
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| description | This study presents a comparative and cross-linguistic (English and Czech) examination of female
and male characters in contemporary British and Czech fiction texts written by female and male
authors. We approach the texts within the corpus stylistics framework using four broadly comparable
corpora of British and Czech fiction. Our focus is on the most frequent nouns occurring with
the possessive pronouns his and her and jeho and její, respectively. By examining the nouns we look
at how female and male characters are linguistically represented: what are the main differences between
their representation and to what extent they are similar. We also aim to look at whether the
author’s gender plays a role in the process of characterisation. Further, we aim to pinpoint the differences
in characterisation by comparing the British and Czech fiction texts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f2e37205cffa44d29d7bb2b2cba4dcae2022-12-22T02:58:15ZdeuUniverzita Karlova, Filozofická fakultaLinguistica Pragensia0862-84321805-96352017-10-01272734His eyes narrowed — her eyes downcast: contrastive corpus-stylistic analysis of female and male writingAnna Čermáková0Lenka Fárová1Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Institute of the Czech National CorpusCharles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Germanic StudiesThis study presents a comparative and cross-linguistic (English and Czech) examination of female and male characters in contemporary British and Czech fiction texts written by female and male authors. We approach the texts within the corpus stylistics framework using four broadly comparable corpora of British and Czech fiction. Our focus is on the most frequent nouns occurring with the possessive pronouns his and her and jeho and její, respectively. By examining the nouns we look at how female and male characters are linguistically represented: what are the main differences between their representation and to what extent they are similar. We also aim to look at whether the author’s gender plays a role in the process of characterisation. Further, we aim to pinpoint the differences in characterisation by comparing the British and Czech fiction texts.https://sites.ff.cuni.cz/linguisticapragensia/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/LP_2017-2_Cermakova-Farova_7-34.pdfgender and languagegender in literaturecorpus stylisticscomparable corpora |
| spellingShingle | Anna Čermáková Lenka Fárová His eyes narrowed — her eyes downcast: contrastive corpus-stylistic analysis of female and male writing Linguistica Pragensia gender and language gender in literature corpus stylistics comparable corpora |
| title | His eyes narrowed — her eyes downcast: contrastive corpus-stylistic analysis of female and male writing |
| title_full | His eyes narrowed — her eyes downcast: contrastive corpus-stylistic analysis of female and male writing |
| title_fullStr | His eyes narrowed — her eyes downcast: contrastive corpus-stylistic analysis of female and male writing |
| title_full_unstemmed | His eyes narrowed — her eyes downcast: contrastive corpus-stylistic analysis of female and male writing |
| title_short | His eyes narrowed — her eyes downcast: contrastive corpus-stylistic analysis of female and male writing |
| title_sort | his eyes narrowed her eyes downcast contrastive corpus stylistic analysis of female and male writing |
| topic | gender and language gender in literature corpus stylistics comparable corpora |
| url | https://sites.ff.cuni.cz/linguisticapragensia/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/10/LP_2017-2_Cermakova-Farova_7-34.pdf |
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