Revue LAROS
Volume 9, Numéro 2, Pages 22-36
2017-09-01

The Process Of Characterization And The Production Of Gender Stereotypes In Children 's Fiction: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Nine Short Stories

Authors : Aoumeur Hayat .

Abstract

Within the framework of critical discourse analysis (CDA). the exploration of the description of the social actors is very important since the words used to make them known to the reader, contribute to their categorization as passive or active, beautiful or ugly, strong or fragile, important or insignificant. This study is devoted to the exploration of the part that language takes in the representation of gender in children 's fiction. My objective is to demonstrate the ideological signification of certain representational choices.

Keywords

children 's fiction, critical discourse analysis; gender; representation; stereotyping