English in Animated Cartoons: Social Linguistics, Cultural, Pragmatic Aspects

The object of the study is modern animated cartoons produced by the leading animation production companies such as Walt Disney Studios, DreamWorks Animation and Pixar Animation Studios.
The subject of the study is sociolinguistic, cultural and pragmatic aspect of the modern animated films.
The aim of the research is to describe the ideologies mediated by the animated films; to single out lexical, syntactic and stylistic features characteristic of the modern animated films, and to identify in which way such social factors as sex, age, and social status reveal themselves through the use of language.
The novelty of the research consists in the investigation of various linguistic features of the animated films, how they contribute to the atmosphere of the animated films, and the social connotations they possess; the study also presents the exhaustive analysis on the functioning of the language in diverse societal context, investigates the correlations between language and social, gender and ethnic identity, discovers the stylistic devices that are used in order to achieve the main rhetorical objectives of the animated films such as appeal to emotions of a viewer, and investigates the language as a social phenomenon which stems from the social context in which it is produced.

Vyshkvar A. O. English in Animated Cartoons: Social Linguistics, Cultural, Pragmatic Aspects : master’s thesis : 035 Philology / Vyshkvar Anna Oleksandrivna. - Kyiv, 2020. - 113 p.