Linguistic Representations of Gender in Children's Literature

Feeling, Speaking, Doing

AvSally Hunt

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This book examines how aspects of gender and identity are represented in some of the best-selling children's book series published in English over the last 100 years. Combining the quantitative methods of corpus linguistics with Critical Discourse Analytic interpretation, the author's analysis shows how gendered constructions of identity are built on uneven patterns of representation. Stories, and the characters who inhabit them, not only provide child readers with entertainment, but also the building blocks of their identities: linguistic choices construct representations of how to be a girl or how to be a boy, often in binary, mutually exclusive terms. Hunt's critical corpus linguistic approach uncovers patterns of representation beyond the fiction author's awareness, which reveal their assumptions about how girls and women behave, or should behave, or what boys and men do, or should do. Chapters cover the gendered patterns found in how characters speak, how they express emotion and how they act on the world, as well as those characters who contradict these patterns and perform their genders in different ways. The detailed analysis and its implications will be relevant to teachers of literature, both at school and at university level, media researchers, lecturers and students of linguistics or gender studies, and anyone interested in child development and the fiction written for children.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-02-26
Mått:148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:441 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality
Antal sidor:235
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031766619

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Sally Hunt is a Staff Tutor and Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK. She specialises in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and language and gender. Her research focuses on the ideological analysis of media, particularly fiction, with an emphasis on the representation of intersectional aspects of identity such as gender and race.

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Chapter 1: What’s it all about?.- Chapter 2: Method: the plot outlined.- Chapter 3: Speaking and interaction.- Chapter 4: First impressions: Appearance and Identity.- Chapter 5: Giggle, shriek or guffaw? How to speak as a girl or a boy.- Chapter 6: Tearful girls and angry boys.- Chapter 7: Agency and acting on the world: are all heroes bro’s?.- Chapter 8: The Others.- Chapter 9: Drawing it all together.

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