Gender and transitive/intransitive verbs

[MJ Hardman]

I would like to recommend:

Sayers, Addie L Language and the manipulation of teen women's identity :
creating deficiency, subverting agency and devaluing teen women's personhood
on the multiple levels of discourse in teen women's magazines
2002 Linguistcs M.A. University of Florida


Dr. MJ Hardman
website:  http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/



On 07/26/2004 6:54 AM, "LINDA MCLOUGHLIN" <MCLOUGL at HOPE.AC.UK> wrote:

> Dear Ruth,
> I'm afraid I've only undertaken one comparative analysis of texts where
> the focus is on transitivity from a gender point of view.  This is in my
> book The Language of Magazines where I try to show the type of language
> work students can do with magazine texts.  One text is from the magazine
> More and the other is Men's Health.  I used Halliday's (1985) model.
> Basically, in accordance with many other researchers, I found that males
> were active in acts involving penetrative sex.
> Best wishes,
> Linda
>
>>>> ruthgo at OPENU.AC.IL 07/25/04 03:54pm >>>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to get your help on this matter. Do you have any material
> on
> the subject? I found a substantial difference in usage of these two
> kinds of
> verbs - when writing on women and men (more intransitive verbs when
> describing men and vice versa), but don't know how to explain it. Can
> you
> help?
>
> Many thanks!
> Ruth Pazy-Goldberg
>