zola, in his book the experimental novel, introduces the aspects of what is now called the naturalistic novel. later on, zola’s ideas were exported to the english literature and the works of english novelists. george gissing is one of the english authors who have successfully adopted the premises and the key elements of zola’s naturalistic novel in their work. this paper deals with the naturali...

he purpose of this study is to demonstrate how we, especially children and adolescents, are influenced by the media; this issue had investigated by analyzing the representation of gender roles in the Game of Thrones Series. There were based on three social learning, socialization and cultivation theories. This research had done a quantitative content analysis. The variables included 20 gender a...

Yazın hayatına 1990’lı yıllarda öykü türüyle başlayan Sema Kaygusuz, eserlerinin gerek biçim ve içerik özellikleriyle gerekse aldığı ödüllerle Türk edebiyatının dikkat çeken genç yazarları arasında değerlendirilmektedir. Kelime dağarı şiirsel diliyle özgün bir dil anlatım tutumunu işaret eden Kaygusuz’un öyküleri, genel olarak sıradan insanları hayatları odağa alır. Bu hayatların psikolojik yan...

Zola, in his book The Experimental Novel, introduces the aspects of what is now called the naturalistic novel. Later on, Zola’s ideas were exported to the English literature and the works of English novelists. George Gissing is one of the English authors who have successfully adopted the premises and the key elements of Zola’s naturalistic novel in their work. This paper deals with the naturali...

This study analyzes how 12 recent (2000-2011) Newbery Medal-winning books represent gender. The study counts how many of the books’ characters represent progressive or traditional gender roles, how many male and female characters represent each character category (protagonist, antagonist, major, and minor), how many strong female characters are accepted or rejected by their peers, how many char...

In this article, a multimodal framework is proposed to track the character development of female characters in the Bioshock franchise. The language part of the framework focuses on appraisal analysis. The appraisal framework is applied to understand the player’s interpretation of the linguistic resources found in the characters’ utterances. The nonlinguistic part of the framework utilizes Kress...

It has been shown that users of a digital system perceive a more ‘masculine-sounding’ female voice as more persuasive and intelligent than a corresponding but more ‘feminine-sounding’ female voice. Our study explores whether a parallel pattern of affectively colored evaluations can be elicited when femininity and masculinity are manipulated via visual cues instead of via voice. 80 participants ...

Speech characteristics of male and female characters in fictional television have received only scant attention in media content research. A content analysis of prime-time television revealed that male characters were more likely to initiate disruptive interruptions than female characters whereas female characters were more likely to use cooperative interruptions than male characters. Such diff...