A Quantitative Turn Taking Analysis on the Female Social Status in The Little Governess

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10.2991/978-2-38476-170-8_108How to use a DOI?

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Turn-taking; Kathrine Mansfield; The Little Governess; Female Social Status

Abstract

This paper aims to give a quantitative turn-taking analysis on the main character of “The Little Governess” to reveal the trait of the little governess, the female social status and the female education problem at that time. This paper picks out some meaningful conversations as the corpus and analyzes them from five aspects, the initiation and control of topic, turn-length, turn-type, interruption and monologue and turn-control strategies. The general result shows that the little governess not only has less turns but is much easier to be interrupted as well. This result reflects the weakness and naivety of the little governess, the female’s low social status and Katherine Mansfield’s criticism on the female education.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fuqiang Ran
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/12/31
TI  - A Quantitative Turn Taking Analysis on the Female Social Status in The Little Governess
BT  - Proceedings of the  2023 5th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 971
EP  - 977
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-170-8_108
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-170-8_108
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