Open AccessFrequency of Adjectives in Male and Female Speech in the Contemporary Television Drama Series "Homeland"
Author(s) -
Marian Żmigrodzki
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
półrocznik językoznawczy tertium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2543-7844
DOI - 10.7592/tertium.2021.6.2.134
Subject(s) - homeland , drama , linguistics , field (mathematics) , psychology , computer science , literature , art , mathematics , political science , philosophy , politics , pure mathematics , law
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 minor help 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 is higher than in male speech in the studied corpus