دفاتر في اللسانيات والتعليمية
Volume 7, Numéro 2, Pages 272-293
2018-11-30
Transitivity And Gender Representation In Children’s Fiction
Authors : Aoumeur Hayat .
Abstract
Transitivity has been used by critical discourse analysts to uncover the subtle connections between linguistic items and meanings. Their objective is to interpret the linguistic structure of the text in order to reveal the extent to which the construction of clauses in particular ways, and the ordering of words in each clause in a certain way, has an impact on the construction of meanings. This study seeks to exploit Halliday‟s theory of transitivity to examine the writer‟s stance towards existing gender ideologies. Our purpose is to demonstrate the ideological signification of certain representational choices. We seek to see, for example, whether or not the male and the female protagonists are endowed with the same active/passive roles, in relation to activities they engage in and the settings they are associated with. The analysis of the samples has shown that the author‟s linguistic choices can serve the production of unequal power relations and can lead the reader to construct an overall impression which privileges the male character over the female one.
Keywords
Transitivity - Gender Representation - Children’s Fiction
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