Proposal

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.