This essay examines the use of adjectives in author descriptions in teaching materials for the course Swedish. By qualitatively categorizing and counting adjectives according to different categories of adjectives, the study shows how adjectives affect and maintain gender structures and stereotypes of male and female characteristics. The result shows that the quantitative occurrence of adjectives is not a contributing cause for the maintenance of gender structures. Although the male author in the teaching materials are heavily overrepresented, they are not described with more adjectives than female authors. Instead, the results show that female writers are described with more adjectives than the male ones. The results of the study also show that gender structures and stereotypes are maintained through the qualitative use of adjectives, where female writers more often are described with adjectives that are closer to the private sphere. While the male writers are more often described with adjectives linked to the public.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hh-42485 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Thorsén, Dennis |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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