Gender Analysis of a Short Story’s Characters: An Analysis of The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

Sella Anindita Latanggang; Siti Mahripah, S.Pd., M.App.Ling.

doi:10.21831/hum.v27i2.50284

Gender Analysis of a Short Story’s Characters: An Analysis of The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

Sella Anindita Latanggang, Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia
Siti Mahripah, S.Pd., M.App.Ling., English Education Program, Faculty of Arts and Languages, Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia

10.21831/hum.v27i2.50284

Abstract

This paper investigated the topic of gender in one of the most popular works written by O. Henry, the Gift of the Magi. The text was analyzed using Halliday’s Transitivity analysis of functional grammar (Matthiessen, C & Halliday, 2014).The data of the text that being analyzed were types of the processes, participant roles, and types of circumstances in the clauses. The result showed that male character is more likely to use Material processes that are assumed to have more energy than those used by the female character.

Keywords: short story, transitivity analysis, gender language characteristic

Keywords

short story, transitivity analysis, gender language characteristic

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21831/hum.v27i2.50284