Gender Stereotypes in Film Language: a Corpus-assisted Analysis
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English: The present study concentrates on the representation and the reception of gender stereotypes. The analysis was first carried out on an ad hoc corpus of cult romantic comedies and dramedies of AngloAmerican pop contemporary culture and secondly with a perception test. Both the corpus-driven analysis and the test results provide useful insights into the representation, recognition and entrenchment of gender stereotypes in language and in western culture. The preliminary findings generally confirm and validate the scientific literature, although showing some notable new elements. Italiano: Il lavoro si incentra sulla rappresentazione e la percezione degli stereotipi di genere. La ricerca è stata prima condotta su un corpus costruito ad hoc di film cult della cultura pop contemporanea anglo-americana appartenenti ai generi romantic comedy e dramedy, ed in seguito con un test di percezione. Il duplice approccio utilizzato fa luce sulla rappresentazione, il riconoscimento e il radicamento degli stereotipi di genere nella lingua e nella cultura occidentale. I risultati si trovano in linea con la letteratura, sebbene mostrino alcuni nuovi elementi.
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