| dc.description.abstract | This thesis deals with the investigation of language used by the female
characters in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. The objective of this research is to
find and reveal social issues dealing with gender representation and gender inequality
inside the movie. Several theories are provided to help this research in revealing the
related issues. These theories comprise Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Systemic
Functional Linguistics (SFL) focuses on transitivity system, theory of representation,
theory of gender and also social and cultural context.
This thesis is conducted by the application of qualitative method with
documentary technique which focuses on internet based. The data of this research are
in the form of movie subtitles downloaded from http://www.yifysubtitles.com/.
There are 95 utterances of every character used as the main data of this research. In
analyzing the data, Halliday‟s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is applied to
find the most dominant process used by the characters. The next is investigating and
discussing the result by using the related theories mentioned earlier.
The finding of this research exposes that the dominant gender representation
of each character is different. Annabeth still maintains the common gender
represented by most women. She represents feminine gender while Clarisse tends to
represent masculine gender. In addition, Percy (the male character involved as the
comparison) still represents masculine gender. This finding is obtained from the
dominant process used by each character which is also hooked with theory of gender.
Through this finding, it is clearly found that another issue concerning with gender
inequality is indeed portrayed and proven in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. This
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gender inequality is depicted through the portrayal of gender imbalances on the
female characters which is realized by the portrayal of Annabeth as a powerless
female character who dominantly represents feminine gender. Moreover, it is also
supported by the depiction of Clarisse. Even though she is described as the powerful
character that dominantly represents masculine gender, however these characteristics
are projected by her powerful god father. | en_US |
