the difference in prose between female and male authors
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My work explores differences between M and F prose.
Aim of my research work is to help for translators wisely make their translation with taking into account features inherent to male writing or to female writing.
There is an objectives to reach a solvation of a problem:• To define main features inherent to male
and to female authors.• What is grammatical and linguistically
difference for male and female authors.• Difference in different genre of a prose
between male and female.• To study necessity of my work to
interpreters and translators.
Object is differences in prose between male and female authors.
Subjects of my work is taken to practical part two classic books sample as Thomas Hardy - Tess of D’Urbervilles and Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice.
Definition “Prose”Meriam-Webster dictionary: • The ordinary language people use in
speaking or writing
• A literary medium distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and its closer correspondence to the patterns of everyday speech
Oxford dictionary: • Written or spoken language in its ordinary
form, without metrical structure:
Sociological effect that affects to the perception of the world that is encoded in
the textMen see themselves as a part of whole world
Women see themselves as a whole world and see the rest as a part of their world
Veronica Roth
is twenty-two
years old
author of
Divergent. Here, is an example of that women see the world as they are the whole world.
GENDER CRITICISM AND FEMALE PROSE DEVELOPING
Virginia Woolf: “Women
writers crafted a new type of
sentence, which is looser and
more accretive than the male
sentence”
Judith Gardiner: “Differences
in life experiences of men and
women affects to prose style”
Statistics from the American Bookseller Association
• In USA 40% of all book buyers are men (for adult population)
• 72 % of men writers prefers fiction
• 79 % of members of Horror Writers of America • In USA 60 % of book
buyers are women (for adult population)•78 % writers prefers romance•21% of members of Horror Writers of America• 55% of own story
writers are women (40% men, 5% unknown)
Female Male
Emotional Rational
Avoidance of genderlectal suffixes Fast developing of eventsStructurally less complex Blatant element of meticulously
choice of wordsPersonalized pronouns: “I”, “she”,
“he”, “they” , “myself”, etcDeterminers: “a”, “the”, “these”,
“that”,
Quantifiers: “more”, “some”, “one”, etc
Possessive case of nouns. E.g. boy’s book
Post – head modification with of phrase. E.g. garden of roses
Represents woman protagonist noble Represents woman protagonist humiliated
Inductive Deductive
MALE AND FEMALE WRITERS
PREFERENCE IN WRITING
According to this percentage
we could see that women
writes better and more
young adult fiction and
paranormal romance
( “Twilight”, “Hunger
Games”, “Divergent” “50
Shades of Gray” Hun etc.,)
* YA – young adult fiction
PAP T’DU
Pedantic choice of bookish words Archaic words: thy > your, etc. Women well mannered and noble Women humiliated and physically
attractive Literary devices:
Hyperbole
Irony
Metaphor
Characterization
Simile
Satire
Alliteration
Literary devices: Allegory
Allusion & Cultural references
Irony
Imagery
Allegory
Use of “of” Use of “possessive case ‘s”
A lot of adjective describing one thing Difficult vocabulary
There are conclusions, which were made according to objectives:1) Females concentrates in description of their own feelings. Males concentrates more in common, general thing describing. Different ways of world perception has influence to different text coding ways. 2) Grammatical and linguistical peculiarities in female sentence is more short, while male sentence is more complicated structurally and longer. 3) Difference in different genres between male and female authors is different. For instance in young adult fiction (Twilight, hanger games, etc.) females succeed more that males. But, historical texts, scientific works are better written by males. This reflects their rationality. 4) Actuality of my research work for interpreters is that this knowledge helps us more rationally translate. Translators, with taking into account peculiarities inherent to women and men will be able to translate any author.