A Brief Analysis of the Main Female Character’s Growth from the Perspective of Turn - Taking Thelma in “Thelma and Louise” as an Example

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10.2991/iserss-18.2018.98How to use a DOI?

Keywords

“Thelma and Louise”, Thelma, turn-taking, growth

Abstract

As a social interaction among people, conversation is a necessity for everyday life; furthermore, it is of vital importance to a vivid reflection of a character in literature works. Turn-taking is one of the main aspects in analyzing a conversation, in which participants engage in a talk by taking turns. This essay tries to study four conversations between the main female character Thelma and other characters in the movie “Thelma and Louise” from the perspective of turn-taking system in CA, intending to find out what Thelma’s character originally is and how she grows afterwards.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Min Yang
AU  - Danye Dong
AU  - Lirui Duan
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - A Brief Analysis of the Main Female Character’s Growth from the Perspective of Turn - Taking Thelma in “Thelma and Louise” as an Example
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 International Seminar on Education Research and Social Science (ISERSS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 385
EP  - 388
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/iserss-18.2018.98
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