Essays about: "women’s speech"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words women’s speech.
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1. The Superman Speaks and the Wonder Woman Keeps Quiet : Men and Women's Speech in Contemporary Superhero Movies
University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikationAbstract : This qualitative study aims to investigate how gender is reflected through language in the two superhero movies Wonder Woman and Man of Steel. Emphasis is put on five linguistic markers that have been found to differ between female and male speakers. These markers are: amount of speech, interruptions, questions, minimal responses and hedges. READ MORE
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2. Straight Línea : A phenomenological approach to women's response to piropos in contemporary Havana
University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärandeAbstract : This thesis investigates women's feelings on being subjected to piropos (catcalling) in their everyday lives. Through interviews with four Cuban women living in Havana, I analyse women's experiences of piropos through a phenomenological lens and through speech theory, investigating how norms surrounding sexualities and gender are materialised in and between language, bodies and spaces. READ MORE
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3. "Drag Queens Talk Like Women, You Know" : A Study in the Use of the hedge "You Know" in feminine-gendered Speech
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : The aim of this study was to analyze and compare the use of the verbal hedge "you know" in the spontaneous speech of women and drag queens to compare for instances of certainty and uncertainty as described by Holmes (1986). For the data, episodes of the reality shows RuPaul’s Drag Race Untucked which airs on Logo TV and The Real Housewives of Orange County which airs on Bravo TV were manually transcribed by the conventions of written speech. READ MORE
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4. Enacting the Silence of Subaltern Women : Julie Otsuka and the Japanese Picture Brides
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : It is by now a truth universally acknowledged that the world’s subaltern women (in Gayatri Spivak’s understanding of the term) cannot make their voices heard, that what we think we know about them are mostly stereotypes of our own making. It is likewise acknowledged that literature has a privileged status when it comes to representing these women, given its unique prerogative to retrieve their traces and convey their subjectivity through imagining. READ MORE
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5. Do the Speeches of Japanese Female Politicians Feature Japanese Women's Language? -Political Language from a Gender Perspective
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This thesis focuses on so called Japanese women’s language by analysing Japanese female politicians’ language use in written speeches. Compared to the rest of the world there is a severe lack of female politicians in the Japanese Diet, and the reasons for this are complex. READ MORE
