Changes in the portrayal of bullying language. A discourse analysis of two young adult novels

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, , language: English, abstract: This seminar paper wants to investigate how the portrayal of bullying language and methods has changed over the last 46 years, because it is a fact that words have the power to hurt somebody deeply. For this purpose, two fictional young adult novels, “Bl...