分析电影对白中性别对话结构，发现男性更常被对话对象选择
You Talkin to Me?: A Network Analysis of Gendered Speaker-Addressee Patterns in Film Screenplays
- 基于4600条对白事件构建对话网络，分析性别间的发言与倾听关系
- 男性在对话中既更常说话也更常被说话，跨性别对话呈对称但聚集分布
- 同性对话分散注意力，异性对话形成紧密互动对，反映结构性不平等
本文研究电影对白中说话者与被说话者之间的性别结构，不仅关注谁在说话，更关注谁被说话以及跨性别对话的动态。基于38部电影剧本中4,600个有标注的对话事件，采用网络分析、卡方检验、配对统计比较和参与转移分析开展三项研究。结果显示：整体上男性角色在发言与被发言方面均占主导地位，即使在女性角色较多的场景中亦然；跨性别对话平均呈现方向对称性，但在影片层面呈现聚集特征；同性别对话使注意力分散，而跨性别对话则产生更紧密的二元回应。结论表明，电影对白中的性别偏见源于对话结构本身——通过排除某些角色参与互动及结构性地将其定位为被说话者，而非仅仅由发言时长或单向不平衡决定。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Objective: This paper investigates the gendered structure of speaker addressee relationships in film dialogue, asking not merely who speaks, but who is spoken to and how conversational dynamics unfold across gender lines. Methods: Using a manually annotated dataset of 4,600 directed dialogue events from 38 film screenplays, we apply network analysis, chi squared tests, paired statistical comparisons, and participation shift analysis across three studies. Key Findings: Male characters dominate as both speakers and addressees corpus wide, even in scenes with more women; cross gender dialogue is directionally symmetric on average but clustered at the film level; and same gender turns diffuse conversational attention while cross gender turns produce tighter dyadic reciprocation. Conclusion: Gender bias in film dialogue operates through the architecture of conversation itself, through exclusion from interaction and structural positioning as addressees, rather than through speaking time or within conversation directional imbalance alone.
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