Lengua y género. Un análisis lingüístico de la película El laberinto del fauno.

Abstract

The aim of this report is to investigate the quantity of words and the use of vulgar utterances in male and female speech, within dramatic language. Additionally we will try and analyse the relationship between dramatic language, the language of every day use and gender. In order to achieve this goal 9 dialogues from the movie ”El laberinto del fauno” from 2006, directed by Guillermo del Toro will be analysed. This serves to verify the amount of words and cursing used by both men and women. The collected data from the 9 dialogues will thereafter be compared with previous studies of every day language in order to establish the relationship between the two types of languages in question. In order to analyse the obtained data, information about the Spanish postwar period as well as stereotypes of gender and language will be compared with the results of the present study. Moreover this study will show the conversational dominance of men, and will hopefully help develop new studies in order to better understand the factors behind language and gender and how this affects our linguistic behaviour.