Outlines two studies examining gender stereotypes in children’s favourite animated television shows, and how this links to children’s gender-role values and perceptions related to gender. Mostly quantitative analysis examining the personalities, communicative activities and behaviours of characters from chosen television shows. Little detailed linguistic analysis, mostly data-based. This paper would be useful for those interested … Continue reading Aubrey and Harrison (2004) The gender-role content of children’s favorite television programs …
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Azmi et al. (2016) Gender and speech in a Disney princess movie
Investigates the female characters in Disney’s animated film ‘Frozen’ to see if their language use reflects the film’s modernised portrayal of princesses. 32 scenes are analysed and chosen according to their balance of male-female dialogues. Four characteristics of female speech (empty adjectives, hedges, intensifiers and questions) are examined both qualitatively and quantitatively. This paper would … Continue reading Azmi et al. (2016) Gender and speech in a Disney princess movie
Baker (2007) Equally Super?
A study looking at the stereotypical, gendered portrayals of 70 superhero characters in 160 hours of recorded children’s animated television programming. Looks specifically at physical appearances, personality traits, physical behaviours as well as specific linguistic communicative features. The study concludes, through both quantitative and qualitative analysis, how and why specific features of superhero characters may … Continue reading Baker (2007) Equally Super?
Begum (2022) He said, she said
Focuses on how two Disney princess films use language to perpetuate sexist tropes against both men and women. Considers percentage of dialogue spoken by each gender and frequency of certain language features such as commands and interruptions. Data is mostly quantitative with no detailed linguistic analysis of sample extracts. This paper would be useful for … Continue reading Begum (2022) He said, she said
El Chami (2020) Gender and race representation in Disney
Takes an intersectional approach through content analysis of three Disney princess films from 2009-2016 featuring female leads of different races. Examines stereotypical women’s language forms (specifically empty adjectives, super polite forms and interruptions) seen in cross-sex interactions between female leads and male characters. Examples from scripts are provided. Results also consider the racial differences between … Continue reading El Chami (2020) Gender and race representation in Disney