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Reflection and Reproduction of traditional feminity characteristics: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Disney Animated film “Mulan” in relation to communicative (verbal) act characteristics of different gender

1. Introduction
1.1 The purpose of the present paper

A variety of Disney movies has been the target of gender analysis because of its embodiment of feminist principles, and such analysis mainly focused on examining characters’ appearance and behavior in order to understand the portrayals of gender roles and gender stereotypes. The film Mulan has received an extreme attention since it was published, particularly because of its representation of female prognosticator with the power and success. Unlike other previous Disney movies which prince saves princesses, the main female character rescues the male participant and the whole country in this anime. In addition, Mulan has another uniqueness in the sense that she possess several typical masculine traits.

Due to such differences, my interest on Mulan made me to conduct an analysis of its content from the gender and language perspective. Superficially the movie represents the female prognosticator as a successful achiever and seemingly conveys the message that a woman can be as powerful as any men. On the other hand, I got curious whether the deeper examination into the characters’ discourse in the movie will reveal hidden gender stereotypical ideologies like other Disney movies. It is expected that there would be a gap between the portrayal of the character and the social reality reflected by the language itself. For this reason, Mulan was chosen to be the corpus data for my final essay of the course <Language and Gender> and I am going to examine whether the superficial representation of Mulan corresponds to the ideologies about gender employed in the film. The purpose of this study is to examine how the movie Mulan depicts the feminity characteristics and discuss specifically significant features of the communicative act of the main characters in both dialogues and theme song lyrics…