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dc.contributor.advisorFábregas, Antonio
dc.contributor.authorØksendal, Elise
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-15T12:06:38Z
dc.date.available2017-09-15T12:06:38Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-16
dc.description.abstractThe thesis investigates from a sociolinguistic perspective the use of accent as a tool for building characters in five Cuban cartoon movies. As other similar studies on the field (Androutsopoulos; Lippi-Green; Dobrow & Gidney; Sønnesyn), it claims that the accent potentially gives information about a character or certain character types, as accent is a device loaded with attitudes. This means that some accents will more frequently be used by for example the heroes than the villains. The five films studied are the full-length films made about the legend of Elpidio Valdés and legend of the Vampires in Havana. These two legends are the most successful cartoons produced by the Cuban Institute of Cinematic Art and Industry (ICAIC) and are therefore considered having certain cultural value in Cuba. The method used is a combination of a linguistic and social contextual analysis. With a repertoire analysis of the characters it is detected that the films show a great variation of different accents; what the thesis arguments is related to a variated language ideology. This means that the object of the investigation differs from other films studied, as for examples Disney movies that are considered promoting a standard language ideology where the far most used accent is a standard accent. However, it must be mentioned that the films studied in this thesis use mostly accents that are close to the accent spoking in the capital of Cuba. With a closer look at the accent used by the heroes, the thesis finds out that both films use the accent to characterize the heroes as non-typical heroes. It also finds out that female characters are underrepresented compared to male characters, though they don’t show less language variation. Considering social contextual factors, it is argued that the way accent is used is highly related to the fact that Cuban cinema is produced for an artistic proposal, not commercial, and made for a national audience; the Cubans.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/11466
dc.language.isospaen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2017 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDSPA-3991
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Spansk språk: 026en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Spanish language: 026en_US
dc.subjectSociolinguisticen_US
dc.subjectLanguage in the mediaen_US
dc.subjectAnimation moviesen_US
dc.subjectLanguage variationen_US
dc.subjectAttitudeen_US
dc.subjectLanguage ideologyen_US
dc.subjectRepertoireen_US
dc.subjectAccenten_US
dc.subjectCharacteren_US
dc.subjectCuban cinemaen_US
dc.titleEl uso del acento para definir personajes en la animación. Un estudio sociolingüístico de la relación entre acento y personaje en cinco largometrajes de dibujos animados de Cubaen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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