Zobrazení genderu v beletrii: kolokace vybraných substantiv a adjektiv v angličtině

Tvrdíková, Štěpánka

This bachelor's thesis focuses on the representation of gender in fiction based on an analysis of a sample of collocations of the nouns girl and boy and the adjectives girlish and boyish in English. The thesis attempts to show whether there is a tendency towards a more balanced representation of boys and girls in contemporary British fiction or whether they are represented stereotypically. The theoretical part defines the theoretical framework of collocation and semantic preference. Furthermore, it introduces approaches to the study of language in terms of gender, primarily focusing on the issue of linguistic sexism and the representation of gender in written texts across genres. The empirical part is based on the analysis of data drawn from the British National Corpus's fiction texts. The obtained data will be analysed using the corpus manager Sketch Engine, which allows examining the frequencies and the nature of differences and similarities of the way the selected lemmas are displayed. By means of Sketch Engine, the thesis also uncovers whether the differences and similarities in the representation of selected lemmas' collocations form a pattern with other word forms in different grammatical relations. The analysed data from the British National Corpus' fiction texts will then be divided per...

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