Oompa-Loompa

Fern Farmer A2 English Language Introduction: My chosen investigation is to explore the ways in which children books portray gender through the use of language looking at a selection of children books from the 20th and 21st centuries for readers aged 7-10. I will be looking at whether there are any common features within the language used. For example I will be looking at whether the female characters within the books typically use language features such as phatic language, intensifiers and…