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Gender Bias and Emotion Reflected Upon The Use of Basic Colorterms: A case Study of Little Women and David Copperfield

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  • Tianyi Zhang

    (School Of International Studies, Zhejiang University, China)

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This paper investigated gender bias and emotions reflected upon the use of basic color terms in Little Women and David Copperfield through corpus analysis. Eleven basic color terms (black, white, red, yellow, green, blue, brown, orange, pink, purple, and gray) and their collocations were extracted and analyzed. First, the frequencies of those terms were counted to display the pattern of color usage by female and male writers. Second, collocations of red, pink, and blue, the three stereotyping-biased colors were analyzed to illustrate the gender bias of color. Third, collocates of major basic color terms were analyzed to explore the emotion associations. Through AntConc, this study confirmed that first, female writer used more color terms in higher frequency; second, the color pink was especially biased toward femininity; and finally, certain color terms could denote emotions, like red for shyness and passion, blue for sadness, white for pure and black for terror.

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  • Tianyi Zhang, 2024. "Gender Bias and Emotion Reflected Upon The Use of Basic Colorterms: A case Study of Little Women and David Copperfield," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 8(7), pages 1688-1703, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:8:y:2024:i:7:p:1688-1703
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