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The Artemis Fowl series (2001-2012) is described by its Irish author Eoin Colfer as “Die Hard with Fairies”. Artemis Fowl is an-eight book series of adventures and supernatural actions. The starring character, Artemis Fowl, is a twelve-year- old criminal mastermind. His primary goal is to pursue money, which makes him kidnap the fairy leader. This results in a continuing fight between two worlds: Artemis’s and the fairies’. The Fowl adventures present many themes, of which gendered discourses and actor representation inspire this research. This paper examines the eight-series child books via Corpus Linguistics apparatus. AntConc is a corpus analysis software utilized to generate wordlists of each book so that words with higher frequency may be investigated in their context of utterance via the concordance toolkit. The next step aims to detect the occurrence of search terms pertaining to gendered discourse and actor description. In this concern, the contributions presented by Tannen (1993, 1999), Edley (2001), Weatherall and Gallois (2003), Sunderland (2004), and Wetherell and Edley (2014) are considered in the detection of gendered language. Van Leeuwen’s taxonomy (1996, 2008) of social actor representation is also considered to detect actor descriptions. Accordingly, the eight-series adventure novels are linguistically analyzed so that the main themes, gender identity markers and actor representation may be uncovered. The study supports the discursive psychologists’ belief that gender is created and enhanced via discourse. The study is original in incorporating corpus linguistic toolkits, discursive psychology and discourse analysis to child Irish fantasy literature to expose the gendered-identities negotiated and the features representing social actors.
阿耳特弥斯·菲尔系列(2001-2012)被爱尔兰作家约恩·科尔弗描述为“虎胆龙威”。《阿耳特弥斯·法尔》是一部八卷的冒险和超自然行为系列小说。主角阿尔忒弥斯·法尔是一个12岁的犯罪策划者。他的主要目标是追求金钱,这使得他绑架了仙女首领。这导致了阿尔忒弥斯和仙女两个世界之间的持续斗争。费尔历险记呈现了许多主题,其中性别话语和演员表现启发了本研究。本文利用语料库语言学仪器对八系儿童读物进行了研究。AntConc是一个语料库分析软件,用于生成每本书的词表,以便通过协和工具包在其话语上下文中调查频率较高的词。下一步的目标是检测与性别话语和演员描述相关的搜索词的出现。在这方面,在性别语言的检测中考虑了Tannen(1993,1999)、Edley(2001)、Weatherall and Gallois(2003)、Sunderland(2004)和Wetherell and Edley(2014)的贡献。Van Leeuwen的社会行动者表征分类法(1996,2008)也被用来检测行动者描述。据此,对八部系列冒险小说进行语言分析,揭示其主题、性别认同标记和演员表现。该研究支持了话语心理学家的观点,即性别是通过话语创造和增强的。本研究首次将语料库、语言工具、话语心理学和话语分析结合到爱尔兰儿童奇幻文学中,揭示了儿童奇幻文学中性别身份的协商和社会行动者的特征。