You Talkin to Me?: A Network Analysis of Gendered Speaker-Addressee Patterns in Film Screenplays

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2607.22656v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 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 pr