- Title
- Representations of gender and agency in the Harry Potter series:
- Creator
- Hunt, Sally
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139269
- Identifier
- vital:37721
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1-137-43173-8
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137431738_13
- Description
- Gender is an all-pervasive and extremely influential construct in the lives of individuals (Taylor, 2003). In children’s literature, we find a reflection of the attitudes towards gender prevalent in a given society at a particular time (Peterson and Lach, 1990). Therefore the study of how gender is represented in children’s literature can make a useful contribution to our understanding of how choices in language use support particular discourses, ‘broad constitutive systems of meaning’ (Sunderland, 2004: 6) or ‘ways of seeing the world’ (op cit: 28). These representations in turn perpetuate prevailing gendered power relations in that society, as research into children’s literature has shown (Thompson and Sealey, 2007). Corpus Linguistics offers a degree of objectivity and efficiency not possible in manual ideological analysis, as well as a set of tools particularly useful for the lexical analysis of considerable quantities of text. In this chapter, I report on my analysis of gendered discourses in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, focussing on patterns around grammatical agency in the books.
- Format
- 19 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan, London
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Hunt, S., 2015. Representations of gender and agency in the Harry Potter series. In Corpora and Discourse Studies (pp. 266-284). Palgrave Macmillan, London.
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