Peemrapat Rongsawat Character’s Identity Construction through Speech Attributes of Hermione Granger in Harry Potter Novels: A Corpus-Based Analysis
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DOI : 10.14456/pnuhuso.2024.16
This study aims to analyze the character’s identity construction through speech and attributes of Hermione Jean Granger, one of the leading characters in Harry Potter novels through aspects of corpus-based linguistics. This study is discussed after quantitative findings by investigating the character’s speech and effects after the Direct Characterization method (Ribó, 2019). Unit of analysis composed of the concordances of speech verbs and speech attributes or adverbial phrases, in a specialized corpus of seven serial books. This study found 43 different speech verbs used by the character throughout the heptalogy, the speech attributes of adverbial phrases were categorized into eight domains, including 1) being sophisticated, 2) being positive and generous, 3) being angry, 4) being rushed, 5) being sensitive, 6) persistent and sarcastic, 7) qualified by girlish voice, and 8) other manners. The corpus-based methodology is consistently related and supportive to previous critical literary studies on character identity construction with feminism ideology as its qualities. In addition, this study shows textual evidence of Miss Granger’s characterizations in more focused details from other characters’ reactions with variations of genders and species as well as their speech attribute domains by the narrator, under the fictional patriarchal-structured world of J.K. Rowling.
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