Gender and transitive/intransitive verbs

[Candy Goodwin]

Scott, definitely try a line drawing of Tagalong2 with the three girls
doing the hand clap (fist pounding) together. That is great.
On Aug 19, 2004, at 9:14 AM, MJ Hardman wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>
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Candy Goodwin
    Anthropology
    UCLA
    Los Angeles CA 90095-1553
         mgoodwin at anthro.ucla.edu
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/goodwin
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