two requests for research pointers

[Georg Marko]

On the question concerning gender issues in children's text books. There
is a Lancaster M.A. dissertation with exactly this topic:

GLASS, Julia Ann: A study of the representation of females in children's
literature.

As far as I remember (I did my M.A. there), she did a corpus analysis.
So this should be of real relevance to your student.

The problem is of course how to get hold of an M.A. dissertation. Well,
I am not sure, but Julia used to be a PhD at Lancaster so the Department
of Linguistics and Modern English Language should know how to contact
her. The address is:
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/

Hope this helps

Georg
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Mag. Georg Marko, M.A.
Institut fuer Anglistik (Department of English Studies)
Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz
Heinrichstrasse 36, A-8010 Graz
(privat: Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Kai 54, 8010 Graz)
tel.: +43/316/380-2474 (0664/395 09 42)
e-mail: georg.marko at kfunigraz.ac.at


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