Jurnal Penelitian Humaniora
Vol 27, No 2 (2022)

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)
Siti Mahripah, S.Pd., M.App.Ling. (English Education Program, Faculty of Arts and Languages, Yogyakarta State University)

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Publish Date
29 Mar 2023

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 

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Jurnal Penelitian Humaniora
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humaniora

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Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta

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Humanities Environmental Science Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice Social Sciences

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Jurnal Penelitian Humaniora is published by Institute of Research and Community Service, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta Jurnal Penelitian Humaniora publishes articles of non educational research and issues related to humanity (culture, language, arts, social ...