Proposal
As I am interested in
Disney Films, I wanted to base my language investigation around how particular
characters use language and the differences in language between characters.
More specifically, I would like to investigate the language used by male and female
characters (the hero and the heroine). I plan to collect and look at
transcripts from a range of animated Disney films which I will find on the internet.
From the transcripts, I will primarily focuse on the main male and female
character's language. I will focus on language frame works including discourse
such as spoken discourse structure, phonology and the characteristics of spoken
delivery, lexis and semantics (e.g. if the male and female characters use
different lexical fields). The question I will explore will be 'What
differences are there in the use of language between male and female Disney
characters?'. As my investigation is focusing on language and gender, I could
bring in theorists such as Tannen and Lakoff.
If this investigation
is not feasible, I have also considered another idea involving Disney such as
the use of language in Disney films and how it has changed over time as well as
investigation the language of a person who speaks English as a second language
and language of people from different parts of the country.
