Korpusové srovnání genderované angličtiny ve videohrách a kinematografii v žánru spekulativní fikce

Mikulenková, Bára

This work focuses on comparative corpus analysis of gendered English language, specifically comparing video games and movies/television shows that are of fantasy/sci-fi genre and were published from 2010 to the present. For movies, an already established corpus, corresponding to said criteria was chosen, while the corpus for video games is built specifically for this research. This is done by obtaining the dialogue from a set of games, either by extraction from computer files or by transcription. This process is based primarily on Language, Gender and Videogames by Frazer Heritage (2021). This research focuses on several phenomena, and is again partially based on the methodology presented in Language, Gender and Videogames, but applied to a larger amount of data and extended by the comparative aspect. We analyse the frequency of the nouns woman and man (in both singular and plural form) and the pronouns she and he. Another focus are the collocates of man and woman, and keywords referring to male and female names, and denoting male and female social actors. These phenomena are compared between video games and movies/TV shows, and the analysis aims to test the hypothesis that these media, within the chosen criteria, are both linguistically androcentric. The paper is written in English. Keywords:...

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