TY  - JOUR
T1  - A Sociolinguistic Study of Male-Female Children Conversations in “The Simpsons” Cartoon
AU - Al-Jeburi, Noor Othman 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 15
IS  - 7
SP  - 283
EP  - 287
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2020.283.287
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2020.283.287
KW  - Sociolinguistics
KW  -gender
KW  -Tannen
KW  -Zimmerman and West
KW  -Jesperson
KW  -Simpsons
KW  -cartoon discourse
KW  -power and politeness
AB  - 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.
ER  -