Methodology
In my essay I will write about the phonological and language features used by different music artist of different sex and analyze how they use language to portray their message as well as why there may or may not be any difference. As we already know there is all ready a preconception of how men and women speak so I will challenge those ideas and conclude whether they are true or false. My hypothesis is that language used by different sex artist will be different.
I will analyze two popular music artist, one male and one female, I will only use the artist that write or co write their own songs. This way I know the songs they sing are a true reflection of how they use language to portray the message they're trying to let out. This will make for a more reliable results as I'm using the same artist. Using too many artist may mean I have to look at more variables that are irrelevant to the thing I want to find out. I'm also trying to minimize as many variables as I can for example I'm using two artist that are of very similar age, and ethnicity. The less variables there are to consider the easier it will be to analyze the differences in male and female language.
I will have four artist and analyse three songs per artist, I will use two female and two male artist. If the song is co written i will make sure the co writer is also of the same sex.
I will have four artist and analyse three songs per artist, I will use two female and two male artist. If the song is co written i will make sure the co writer is also of the same sex.
My method of collecting data will just analyze song lyrics three songs per artist, this will give me enough data to get a idea of the language techniques used by each of he writers. Also I'm only using the same two artist so that it can be comparable. Since I'm only using song lyrics which are public to all, there will be no ethical issue of personal invasion. To make the research more contemporary I will only use artist that are still presently relevant and songs will only be used from 2000 and onward. I believe analyzing songs that are older may not be as relevant because of all the social change that has happened in the last century. With all the change that has happened it would not be very representable to be analyzing older texts.
Some good thinking about comparability. I'm not sure one artist of each gender will be enough to get an idea about how 'male' and 'female' singer songwriters use language. Can you find two of each gender that are roughly comparable? How will you select which songs to sample? What comparability and reliability factors can you consider in deciding this.
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