“You’ll never have to listen to her talk like this? With an upward inflection? At the end of every sentence?”— Fundamental frequency of female voices & linguistic misogyny in Fox’s Family Guy
This paper explores how fundamental frequency variations may be used to stigmatize female characters in a fiction television series. The corpus is composed of a narrative arc taken from Fox’s Family Guy (season 5, episode 5). The quantitative section of the paper compares the fundamental frequency u...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Anglophonia |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/2352 |