Authors : Noor Othman Al-Jeburi
Abstract: Among the theories and studies of gender, there are many that assert the idea of language and interaction differences on the bases of the gender of the speaker. Being male or female decides the style of person's speech and the form of his language tendencies that accord with his gender. This keeps true mostly to adult and old people speech. The aim of this study is to investigate whether this feature extends to include children speech, especially, in cartoons. Cartoons are almost the only favourite media that children are connected to, of course if social media networks are excluded. Since, any single attitude presented in cartoons will be easily adopted by children as they try to imitate whatever they are exposed to, it is needed to shed light on the way different gender speeches are portrayed.
Noor Othman Al-Jeburi , 2020. A Sociolinguistic Study of Male-Female Children Conversations in “The Simpsons” Cartoon. The Social Sciences, 15: 283-287.