MALE AND FEMALE SPEECH REPRESENTATION IN KARTOGRAPHY: A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
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Discourse Analysis, Gendered Communication, Linguistic Variation, Speech Patterns, Tannen’s Difference TheoryAbstract
This article uses Deborah Tannen's Difference Theory to discuss how male and female characters communicate differently in Kamila Shamsie's Kartography. The purpose of this article is to identify and explain speech patterns that indicate gender roles, power dynamics and social processes within a South Asian framework. Adopting a qualitative descriptive approach, the article analyzes twenty selected dialogues, ten from the male protagonist and ten from the female protagonist, to explore patterns of gendered communication. The data was obtained from the close reading of the novel, and the interpretation of the data was carried out systematically using Miles and Huberman's model of qualitative data analysis which includes three stages namely, data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing. The article enhances literary and sociolinguistic scholarship by using a Western gender communication framework with a South Asian text and showing the role fictional discourse plays in the representation of culturally embedded notions of gender.
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