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English Language and Literature

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

2015

English

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Women's Speech As Reflected In The Television Series, Friends, Gema Del Moral May 2015

Women's Speech As Reflected In The Television Series, Friends, Gema Del Moral

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This research focuses on analyzing how contemporary women’s speech is reflected in the popular television show Friends through the characters’ differences in gender and their variances in language forms. The aim of this thesis is to find out if there are certain lexical and syntactical characteristics that distinguish women’s language from men’s language. In this study, a corpus linguistic approach is used to collect the data and make a quantitative analysis based on the verbal communication of the characters involved in Season 4 of Friends. The analysis of the linguistic features of verbal communication of all the characters in Season …