Linguistic Stereotyping, Gendered Representation, and the Shifting Portrayal of Women in Hindi Cinema: A Sociolinguistic Corpus Study
Hindi popular cinema in its studio era as well as in its OTT era has been an enduring medium through which speaker types have been socially encoded. The paper uses a bounded corpus of 2025 Hindi language feature films (40 theatrically released and two long-form web series) to explore how the language and paralinguistic...