Gendered body language in children’s literature over time

IF 0.6 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language and Literature Pub Date : 2022-01-18 DOI:10.1177/09639470211072154

A. Čermáková, Michaela Mahlberg

引用次数: 5

Abstract

In this paper, we study gendered patterns of body language descriptions in children’s fiction. We compare a corpus of 19th-century children’s literature with a corpus of contemporary fiction for children. Using a corpus linguistic approach, we study gendered five-word body part clusters, that is, repeated sequences of words that contain at least one body part noun and a marker of gender. Our aim is to identify and describe differences between the description of male and female body language across both corpora. We find that in the 19th century, there are not only fewer clusters for female characters, but the functional range of these clusters is also limited. The contemporary data suggests a trend for male and female clusters to become more similar with the clusters illustrating an increasing range of options for the description of female characters and their interactional spaces.

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儿童文学中的性别肢体语言

本文研究了儿童小说中肢体语言描写的性别化模式。我们将19世纪的儿童文学语料库与当代儿童小说语料库进行了比较。使用语料库语言学方法，我们研究了性别化的五个词的身体部位簇，即包含至少一个身体部位名词和一个性别标记的单词的重复序列。我们的目的是识别和描述两个语料库中男性和女性肢体语言描述之间的差异。我们发现，在19世纪，女性角色的集群不仅更少，而且这些集群的功能范围也有限。当代数据表明，男性和女性集群有变得更加相似的趋势，集群说明了描述女性角色及其互动空间的选择范围越来越广。

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14.30%

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