THE REPRESENTATION OF GENDER STEREOTYPE IN RELATION TO VERB USAGE IN DISNEY ANIMATED MOVIES

Main Author: INTAN SUKMA DEWI, 121211233070
Format: Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2016
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Online Access: http://repository.unair.ac.id/57095/1/ABSTRACT.pdf
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  • Media gives various kinds of information to society. Children are given with various messages and images of the representations of gender. The language use in Disney animated movie is the presence of gender representation in media. To understand how gender representation is reflected through language, the writer analyzed the lexical verb usage in Disney animated movie using the theory proposed by Biber et al. (1999). The purpose of this article is to reveal the language choices through the most frequent types of lexical verb and used by male and female characters, and how the representation of male and female characters based on lexical verbs usage. Through conducting a qualitative study in 3 Disney animated movies, Zootopia, Tangled and The Princess and the Frog that have male and female major character, the result of the study reflects gender stereotypes through verb usage of male and female character in which they have different representation in society. However, based on the analysis of the data, it became clear that there were still differences between the representation of male and female in Disney animated movies in terms of lexical verb usage.