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Cegiełka, Anna. "Kobieta w tradycyjnych przysłowiach i powiedzeniach angielskich i polskich." Język a Kultura 27 (June 13, 2019): 235–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/1232-9657.27.15.
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The linguistic view of woman in English and Polish proverbsThe aim of this paper is to present the linguistic view of woman in English and Polish proverbs. According to philosophers and linguists whose ideas shaped the concept of the linguistic worldview and cognitive definition, the language we use provides us with a specific interpretation of the world. Cognitive definitions should account for the way language users perceive particular phenomena. This article looks at connotative features encoded in English and Polish proverbs about women, which are sets of implicit judgments that build the linguistic stereotype of woman. The analysis of the material shows that the linguistic stereotypes of woman in English and Polish proverbs are to a great extent similar and predominantly negative. Yet, there are language specific differences concerning the overall attitude towards women, as well as relative salience of particular features.
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Lindeman, Meri. "“Like little Helsinki girls in the backseat of a tram”." Journal of Language and Sexuality 13, no. 1 (January 30, 2024): 98–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jls.00032.lin.
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Abstract This article explores the conceptions and attitudes that non-linguists have towards Finnish spoken by gay men. Combining folk linguistics and feminist theories, the study utilises interview and survey data for content analysis. The study finds that the main characteristics of speech viewed as “gay” – e.g. high pitch, atypical intonation patterns, nasality, non-canonical /s/ quality, use of affective adjectives – align with the speech stereotypes associated with girls and young women. The article suggests that, even though the attitudes explicitly communicated by the participants are mostly neutral, the language features associated with gay men show a strong relation to extra-linguistic gay stereotypes.
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Ali, Hatim F., and Mahdi I. Al-Utbi. "A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of Anti-feminist Poetry in English and Arabic." Al-Adab Journal 3, no. 139 (December 15, 2021): 9–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.31973/aj.v3i139.2280.
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Language is the fundamental element of communication and understanding in society. It relates immediately to human thoughts and is embodied in written or spoken signs or signals. The field that scientifically studies language (its forms and structures) is called Linguistics. Among the linguistic studies of language is Rhetoric which studies the importance of speech or texts for the audience. Rhetoric is the art of persuasion; it comprises different arguments raised by the speaker/writer depending on social, religious, moral or even traditional evidence in order to prove that the raised arguments are real. In this way, the writer/speaker associates the language to similar or related realities in order to reach the purpose of her/his language. However, presenting arguments and evidence it not always accurate because there are arguments that rely on weak evidence. The purpose of argumentative techniques is still to persuade the audience about a personal view or a societal concept. From this perspective, the feminist linguists suggest that rhetoric is actually masculine; that is, rhetoric is anti-feminist. Therefore, linguists presented a great deal of evidence to prove this theory and bring the feminist ideology into rhetoric. This study aims at providing a feminist rhetorical analysis of the anti-feminist poetry to study the status of women in rhetoric and whether the arguments that demean women are true or not. For this purpose, the current study utilizes Fiorenza’s (1995) model of analysis; a feminist rhetorical tool to analyze anti-feminist poems written by male poets in English and Arabic in order to study the arguments as well as the evidence the poets present against women.
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Purnata, Kadek, Made Budiarsa, and Ni Ketut Sri Rahayuni. "Women Linguistic Features in the Craig Gillespie’s Movie “I, Tonya”." Udayana Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (UJoSSH) 5, no. 2 (September 30, 2021): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/ujossh.2021.v05.i02.p08.
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Lakoff's assertion about women's language was a breakthrough in linguistics. However, many linguists and researchers also criticized and stated different perspectives towards Lakoff's theory. Therefore, this study was conducted in order to know whether Lakoff's theory is still relevant nowadays. This study used the movie “I’ Tonya” as the data source. It was applied with quantitative and qualitative analysis. It is a documentation method supported with a corpus analysis based on the concordance technique using AntConc software. The findings show that nine types of women's linguistics features were used by the female characters in the “I’ Tonya” movie. Meanwhile, one type of women linguistics feature of the precise color term was not found. From 10677 words of corpus data from “I’ Tonya” subtitles script, women used lexical hedges accounting for 64% while men only 36%. It was also found in intensifier where women used accounting for 103 expressions and men only 37 expressions. However, in avoidance of strong swear words, women were using swear words about 71% compared to only 28% used by men.
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McConnell-Ginet, Sally. "Anna Livia, Pronoun envy: Literary uses of linguistic gender. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. x, 237 (including index). Hb $49.95, pb $29.95." Language in Society 32, no. 5 (November 2003): 726–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s004740450324505x.
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In 1971, women students at the Harvard Divinity School began protesting the use in their classes of BOMFOG (“brotherhood of man, fatherhood of god”) talk, the equation of the universal with the masculine exemplified by apparently generic uses of forms like he and man. Responding to reports of these protests in the Harvard Crimson, Harvard's linguistics faculty wrote a letter to the editor explaining that English masculine forms were linguistically “unmarked” for gender and patronizingly assuring the protestors that “there is no need for anxiety or pronoun envy” (quoted in Livia, p. 3). Once launched, that phrase begged to be a title, and Anna Livia's enlightening book is a most suitable bearer. This is a volume from which linguists and others interested in the linguistic encoding of gender can learn much.
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OULADIB, Hakima, and Fatine LEMOUALDI. "THE FEMININE GENDER IN LINGUISTICS: IS THERE ANY EGALITARIAN LANGUAGE WITH RESPECT TO MASCULINE?" International Journal of Humanities and Educational Research 05, no. 04 (August 1, 2023): 174–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2757-5403.21.11.
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For several years, the theme of gender has been the subject of debate between several linguists, especially since the revival of feminism, during the second half of the 19th century. By default, the masculine grammatical gender, in French, refers to the male gender, while having a generic value allowing it to designate the female gender as well. Along the same lines, several feminist authors and linguists have revolted in order to promote a non-sexist language as well as an epicene language, eradicating the generic masculine and its stereotype of the superiority of men over women. Following the grammatical rule commonly learned at school which stipulates that "The masculine prevails over the feminine" decreed by several grammarians in the 17th century, we were witnessing a form of linguistic sexism, going as far as pejorative or even sexual connotations. For a few expressions, once transformed into the feminine.. It is in this context of linguistic genre that our present work takes place, relying on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis addressing linguistic relativity, while providing examples concerning the Arabic language as well.
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Salimi Abdolmaleki, Kosar, and Khalida Siyami Eidlak. "REPRESENTATION AND VERBALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT “WOMAN” WITH A NEGATIVE CONNOTATION IN THE RUSSIAN-PERSIAN COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS." Bulletin of Chelyabinsk State University 479, no. 9 (November 14, 2023): 106–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.47475/1994-2796-2023-479-9-106-116.
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This study is devoted to the representation of the concept “woman” in its negative aspect among peoples of different cultures, confessions and languages, particularly, in a comparative Russian-Persian analysis. The relevance of this study is determined by the fact that in recent decades the role of women in the political, cultural, religious and economic spheres has become increasingly important. The methodological basis of the present study were the works of leading linguists of Persian and Russian folklore, as well as linguistic units selected by continuous sampling from paremiological dictionaries and corpora of compared languages. The objectives of this study include the analysis of the features of phraseological units used in the linguistic picture of the world of the Russian and Persian peoples. Linguistic and cultural comparative analysis of phraseological units shows that women in both Russian and Persian linguistic cultures are negatively characterized by the presence of such negative qualities as stupidity, talkativeness, weakness, deceit, cunning, jealousy, dependence on the male sex, wastefulness, etc. The scientific novelty of this work lies in the fact that it presents an analysis of the concept “woman” with a negative connotation using analytical-descriptive and analytical-thematic approaches, and the results of the study can be further reflected in linguocultural analyzes and can also be applied in compiling Russian-Persian dictionaries of proverbs and sayings.
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Amankevičiūtė, Simona. "Cognitive Approach to the Stereotypical Placement of Women in Visual Advertising Space." Respectus Philologicus 24, no. 29 (October 25, 2013): 108–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2013.24.29.9.
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This article conceptualizes the image of women in the sexist advertisements of the 1950s and 60s and in current advertising discourse by combining the research traditions of both cognitive linguistics and semiotic image analysis. The aim of the research is to try to evaluate how canonical positionings of women in the hyperreality of advertisements may slip into everyday discourse (stereotype space) and to present an interpretation of the creators’ visual lexicon. It is presumed that the traditional (formed by feminist linguists) approach to sexist advertising as an expression of an androcentric worldview in culture may be considered too subjectively critical. This study complements an interpretation of women’s social roles in advertising with cognitive linguistic insights on the subject’s (woman’s) visualisation and positioning in ad space. The article briefly overviews the feminist approach to women’s place in public discourse, and discusses the relevance of Goffman’s Gender Studies to an investigation of women’s images in advertising. The scholar’s contribution to adapting cognitive frame theory for an investigation of visuals in advertising is also discussed. The analysed ads were divided into three groups by Goffman’s classification, according to the concrete visuals used to represent women’s bodies or parts thereof: dismemberment, commodification, and subordination ritual. The classified stereotypical images of women’s bodies are discussed as visual metonymy, visual metaphor, and image schemas.
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Kozub, Halyna, and Maria Olkhovyk. "REPRESENTATION OF GENDER RELATIONS IN SPORTS MEDIA." Research Bulletin Series Philological Sciences 1, no. 193 (April 2021): 347–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.36550/2522-4077-2021-1-193-347-355.
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The article is devoted to the problem of modern linguistics - gender relations. The problems of language and gender have become relevant in modern linguistics. Linguists consider gender as a phenomenon of culture and language; study the refraction of this category in language. Scientists consider gender to be a sociocultural category; their works touch upon the issues of oral and written communication. They researched general patterns of gender development, gender relations in linguistics, and concepts in the light of gender stereotypes. But the problem of studying gender relations in sports media in a comparative aspect was not touched upon in the works of linguists. Significant contributions to the construction of gender were made by the mass media. The media shape gender attitudes for both men and women and assign them specific gender roles. Sports text is a multilevel communicative constructor. It reflects the communicative intentions of sports actors - athletes, coaches, competition judges, sports administrators, fans, and sports commentators. The phraseological and lexical fund of the German and Russian languages was used to analyze the research data. After analyzing the material we have chosen, that most of the articles are devoted to men's sports - 76.5% and only 23.5% - to women's. We determined that the morphological way of forming words (suffix and addition) prevails in sports publications. So, we have noted that for designation a person's sex in borrowed words, native speakers of the Russian language resort to the syntactic method, that is, the formulation of the predicate in the desired form. In German language, a predicate cannot be an indicator of gender. We can reveal belonging to one or another gender only through introductory nominations (weiblich, männlich, Frauen-, Männer-) or the names of athletes.Over time, the stereotypes that were created in society are changing, because our life does not stand still, and women are increasingly becoming on a par with men.
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Türker, Deniz. "Professor Wace’s Turkish Sampler: Ottoman Women Embroiderers and Continental Collectors of Woven Archaeologies." Textile Museum Journal 50, no. 1 (2023): 72–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tmj.2023.a932851.
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Abstract: This article offers a close object analysis of a nineteenth-century sampler from the Ottoman domains. While “Ottoman” as a classificatory designation helps to geographically locate the object due to the unusual length and quantity of embroidered Ottoman Turkish inscriptions, the maker leaves bolder markers of her layered identity and reveals sociocultural practices of crafting embroideries that indicate multi-sensorial improvisational modes of composition, both tactile as well as sonic. The article’s second intention is to expound on the broadening historiographical conception of a Mediterranean network of craft skills, practices, patterns, and peoples in the aftermath of World War II over and against insular distinctions and presumed parochialism, as was imposed on these types of objects in earlier decades of the twentieth century. A continental network of classical archaeologists, amateur collectors, linguists, and art historians constitute the sampler’s twentieth-century academic afterlife, underscoring a wide-ranging interest in textiles and their place in rethinking interconnected communities and regions.
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Fatima, Anbarin, and Shumaila Ashee. "A Transitivity Analysis of Woman Representation in “Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust”." International Journal of Linguistics and Culture 4, no. 2 (December 25, 2023): 301–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.52700/ijlc.v4i2.198.
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One of the concerns of feminist linguists is to examine the language which is used to represent men and women of a society. The study in hand has considered this issue and tries to explore the language used by the female author dealing with issues of women of Pakistan. Shahla Abdullah's “Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust” is analyzed from the lens of the transitivity model. The emphasis is laid upon the woman's portrayal and the ideological representation through the transitivity patterning. The three steps analysis as given by Burton (1982) has been followed for the analysis of the data. Material and mental processes have been used dominantly with the frequency of 42.4% and 17% respectively which depicts the struggle of Pakistani women against oppression and marginalization. The findings demonstrate that the narrative constructed by Abdullah is the reiteration of the stereotypical woman who suffers due to the patriarchal setup and the hegemony of the male counterpart. The study concludes that being a woman, Abdullah could not deviate from the set norms and hence, is unable to construct a new discourse to inspire and empower the woman belonging to the underprivileged sect of society.
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Thompson, Katrina Daly. "Educating Muslim Women." American Journal of Islam and Society 31, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 104–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v31i1.1023.
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Educating Muslim Women is a unique study of Muslim women told throughthe story of Nana Asma’u, a nineteenth-century Fulani woman from NorthernNigeria who became a renowned scholar and greatly impacted Muslim womenin Nigeria and beyond. Drawing on history, literary analysis, and ethnography,the volume’s slimness belies a wealth of material that will interest historians,applied linguists, and even sociologists of contemporary Muslim communities.The book’s main argument is that Muslim women have played a greaterrole in their communities than has previously been understood by historians.While using Nana Asma’u as an example, Boyd and Mack argue that she wasnot unique and offer painstaking details to show that her society supportedand encouraged female Islamic scholarship. In addition, they relate how contemporarywomen continue to follow her example. The book is organizedroughly chronologically, although the chapter titles suggest a thematic organizationthat is not always adhered to.The introduction offers some background on Sufism, which in later chaptersthe authors narrow down to the Qadiriyyah order. They define Sufism as“the prayerful pursuit of knowledge aiming to move an individual closer toGod” (p. 15). Their focus on knowledge allows them to emphasize Islamicscholarship and education: “Education, like Islam itself, was integral to allparts of daily life” (p. 21). Nineteenth-century schools are depicted as placeswhere pupils learned Qur’anic recitation and received religious blessings, aswell as practiced farming, obtained medical treatment, and sought personaladvice. By depicting education as central to Islam and Islam as central toNorthern Nigerian society, their subsequent account of how involved women ...
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Balcom, Patricia, and Sandra Clarke. "Academic Career Paths in Linguistics: A Report on the CLA Questionnaire." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 49, no. 1 (March 2004): 73–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100002796.
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AbstractThis paper presents the results of a survey conducted by the CLA in 1996-1997. Mail-in questionnaires were completed by 110 Canadian linguists from all regions of the country, 71 of whom (65%) were female, and 39 (35%) male. Following an overview of the literature dealing with women in academia in general and linguistics in particular, a summary of the background and status of the respondents is given. The results are presented thematically, exploring (i) the division between teaching, research and committee work; (ii) mentoring; (iii) financial support; (iv) the relative prestige of sub-disciplines. Of note is the fact that SPSS analyses show very few significant differences when sex was taken as a variable. The quantitative results provide a snapshot of linguistics in Canada in the late 1990s, and coupled with the numerous comments provided by respondents, point to issues that need to be addressed by the Canadian Linguistics Association. These are summarized in the Conclusion as a series of recommendations to the Association.
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Gitu, Pamela Mukami, Vicky Khasandi, and Albert Rutere. "Discursive Strategies Contributing to Stigma towards Involuntary Childless Women in the Gikùyù Community." East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences 6, no. 1 (June 22, 2023): 363–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.37284/eajass.6.1.1260.
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Positioning women in a situation where motherhood is associated with womanhood has led to stigma towards those who do not have children. They are perceived as outsiders in their communities, and language is used to advance the ideologies that support their discrimination. The use of discursive techniques has been essential in stigmatising and categorising childlessness. Linguistic stigma has been created by language and other ideas. Degrading discourse strategies that are language-based have a significant impact on how childless women are viewed. The paper’s discursive approaches were centred on the stigma that involuntarily childless women in the Gikùyù community experience. The study was informed by Fairclough and Van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Different elements like vocabulary, grammatical structure, and semantics ought not to be examined individually, according to CDA and their functions should not be disregarded. The purpose of the study was to assess the discursive techniques stigmatising involuntarily childless women. The study used purposive sampling to choose the villages in the Tetu sub-county, Nyeri County. They were Kǐandu, Ndǔgamano and Kǐgogoinǐ. The researcher used focus group discussions (FGDs) in order to collect data. Twelve involuntarily childless women participated in the FGD as respondents, four in each FGD. The data was then audio recorded, analysed, and categorised into themes. The study will benefit linguists since it will educate them on the extent to which language may be used to stigmatise social groups and prepare them to advocate for language change when needed. This discussion will highlight the connection between language and gender and motivate curriculum designers to include discussions on linguistic stigma, which will benefit researchers who focus on gender issues. Involuntary childless women are stigmatised linguistically according to the study, and these women should rebrand themselves by accepting their situation and reclaiming their identity
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Dadjo, Servais D. Y. "Field Variable and Experiential Meaning in Flora Nwapa’s One Is Enough." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 7, no. 6 (November 1, 2018): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.7n.6p.52.
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This paper deals with Field Variable and Experiential Meaning in Flora Nwapa’s One Is Enough. The theory that underpins this study is systemic functional linguistics, which is one of the approaches proposed by scholars such as linguists M.A.K Halliday, S. Eggins, J. R. Martin, R. Fowler, J. D. Benson to mention but a very few, for the study of language and its function(s). In this system, the study of language involves three functional labels: experiential, interpersonal and textual meanings. The study of these different functional labels helps to have a deeper understanding of a text. This study aims at describing and analysing linguistic features which connote experiential meaning in One Is Enough so as to uncover the deep messages conveyed through the novel and provide a new interpretation of it. Both quantitative and qualitative methods have been used in this study. Thus, two extracts have been selected from One Is Enough and systemic functional linguistic theories have been applied to each of them. The linguistic description and analysis of One Is Enough has revealed that women are the most active, talkative and most mentally involved in the different issues discussed in the selected Texts. The results also indicate to what extent children are important in African families. The discussion and interpretation of these results has enabled the researcher to contend that the deep messages conveyed through One Is Enough mainly concern the importance of children and consequences of childlessness in African societies.
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Gitu, Pamela Mukami. "Prevalent Ideologies in the Gikùyù Language that Contribute to the Stigmatization of the Involuntary Childless Women." International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation X, no. VI (2023): 63–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.51244/ijrsi.2023.10607.
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In society, discourse is a key tool of power and control. If a woman does not have children within her childbearing years, she is stigmatised by society as a deviant and is expected to bear and raise children. Ideology and discourse are related in that they both come to us through or are reinforced by the language we use on a daily basis. As a result, ideologies are ingrained in the language that individuals employ. Therefore, ideology is utilised to support the dominant notions that stigmatise the involuntary childless woman. The main focus of this paper was on the prevailing notions that support the stigmatisation of involuntary childless women. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) by Fairclough and Van Dijk served as a foundation for the study. According to CDA, several components such as vocabulary, grammatical structure, and semantics should be thoroughly evaluated, and the study took that into account. Villages in Othaya sub-county, Nyeri County, were selected for the study using purposive sampling technique. They were Karὶma, Mahiga, Chinga, and Kairῠ-thὶ. Focus group discussions (FGDs) and audio recording were both used by the researcher to gather data. Five respondents from each of the four villages took part in the FGDs totaling twenty involuntary childless women. After the data was collected, it was audio recorded, examined, and divided into themes. The study will mostly help linguists because it will inform them about how much language may be used to stigmatise social groups and equip them to fight for language change when necessary. This discussion will emphasise how language and ideologies are related and encourage curriculum developers to incorporate lessons on linguistic stigma, which will be useful for researchers who concentrate on gender issues as well. According to the study, attitudes created through language are used to stigmatise involuntary childless women.
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Yi, Tongjing. "A Sociolinguistic Perspective on the Language of Gender in the Novel the Four Winds." Communications in Humanities Research 5, no. 1 (September 14, 2023): 166–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/5/20230168.
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In recent years, feminism has spread widely worldwide, and communication and dialogue between men and women have increased internationally, requiring the guidance of gender language theory. Meanwhile, Western linguists have made many achievements in gender linguistics, such as defect theory, dominance theory, difference theory, politeness theory and construct theory. In order to help people better understand the understanding of gender language differences, contribute to effective communication between men and women, and promote social peace and stability, this study will use a combination of close textual reading, dialogue analysis, an example analysis and comparative analysis to study the language style and dialogue of Elsa, the heroine of the novel the Four Winds, and ultimately conclude that the formation of women's language style is influenced by personal experience, family environment, and The conclusion is that the formation of women's language style is influenced by personal experience, family environment and social environment. At the same time, the variation of the above factors, in reality, will also make the language style have diversity.
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Berrefas, M. "THE USE OF FEMALE NAMES BY LYUDMILA ULITSKAYA ON THE MATERIAL OF THE NOVELS "SONECHKA" AND "MEDEA AND HER CHILDREN"." Modern Linguistic and Methodical-and-Didactic Researches, no. 3(38) (December 31, 2022): 68–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.36622/mlmdr.2022.61.10.007.
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Statement of the problem. The paper is devoted to the study of the use of some female names by Lyudmila Ulitskaya on the material of the works "Sonechka" and "Medea and her children", because in the context of modern literature there are several factors of the choice of "female prose": the author is a woman, the main character is a woman. These issues are closely related to the lives of women, their special stylistic and semantic metaphors from the point of view of vocabulary, semantics and onomastics. Results. In this paper, the creativity of women writers is analyzed, the phenomenon of the use of the female names in the works of writers is described on the example of the selected works by Lyudmila Ulitskaya. This phenomenon has been studied by many linguists, historians and sociologists. The study addresses the issue of determining the possibilities of using some proper names as a source of reflection about real events and a means of linguistic and literary interpretation of the works of art. Conclusion. Analyzing the art works "Sonechka" and "Medea and her children", we could come to the conclusion that the writer draws a type of a modern woman with a rich inner and deep world, revealing an irresistible devotion to her family. Based on the conducted research, it can be argued that the writer uses female names to create a female art image. The name of the main character always plays the role of a sign-symbol that leads the reader to classical works, where usually all the heroines in the Russian literature, endowed with these names, have particular character traits.
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Ostropalchenko, Yu. "Speech behavior of women characters in representation of the concept FAMILY in in the dramaturgical discourse of Wendy Wasserstein." Studia Philologica 1, no. 14 (2020): 81–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2311-2425.2020.1412.
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The article is devoted to the study and systematization of the speech behavior of women in the representation of the concept FAMILY in the communicative space of the characters of the modern American dramatic discourse on the example of the plays of Wendy Wasserstein. The dynamics of gender markers reveals trends in the cognitive system in the axiological paradigm of American dramatic discourse. Communicative practices of the characters of dramatic works reflect the stereotypical behavior of male and female characters in different situations, which allows to study the specifics of female and male language behavior of a particular society. In studying this specificity, researchers often turn to linguoconceptology. Studies of the subject’s linguistic behavior in line with the anthropocentric paradigm allow linguists to study the processes occurring at the time of the creation of a linguistic phenomenon, which reflects cultural, gender, social and age factors. Any of the listed aspects affects the communication strategies of the subject, which makes it possible to study the linguistic activity of the broadcaster from the point of view of linguocultural, conceptual and gender approaches. Conceptual fields based on replicas of female characters in modern plays by American playwright Wendy Wasserstein are analysed. Communicative strategies of speech behavior of female characters in dramatic discourse indicate the linguistic and cultural features of the language of communicators, which suggests the existence of a unique language culture of American society, which was formed under the influence of accepted norms in society. The main concepts of the playwright’s discourse “Family” and “Career”, which are verbalized through a number of examples, are analysed.
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Bakalova, Ekaterina V. "The pragmatics of code-switching in the glossy magazine Elle." Verhnevolzhski Philological Bulletin 2, no. 25 (2021): 107–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/2499-9679-2021-2-25-107-112.
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To date, the linguistic aspect of the language of fashion has been studied insufficiently, therefore this research area is becoming increasingly popular. Modern glossy fashion and beauty magazines are characterized by a high percentage of code-switches. Linguists studying this linguistic phenomenon are particularly interested in researching foreign language units in magazine texts. The article deals with the problems of contact and gender linguistics: the influence of the gender focus of a glossy magazine on the usage of code-switches and their functions; it reviews the relevant scientific works, analyzes the specifics of women’s speech and examines the pragmatic aspect of foreign language units in glossy magazines for women. In women’s glossy magazine articles, code-switches are used for 7 different pragmatic reasons. The results of the quantitative analysis demonstrate that Elle magazines are characterized by the usage of foreign-language units with different intentions: topic-related, effort-saving and emotional ones. The prevalence of these functions is explained by the gender focus of the glossy magazine Elle. The genre-thematic uniqueness of Elle determines the usage of codeswitches with topic-related intention. The terminology of the fashion and beauty industry implies the usage of popular expressions in this field, which, as a rule, are more concise than the units of the Matrix language. On the one hand, the reason for code-switches is to save the effort, on the other hand, they serve the topic-related function of the magazine, i.e. we are dealing with the combination of pragmatic functions. The predominance of the emotional code-switches is explained by the brightness and expressiveness of women’s speech.
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Gasharova, Aida R. "Gender Representation of Women in Lezgin Folk Proverbs and Sayings." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies 13, no. 3 (2021): 423–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2021.308.
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The article deals with the question of the abstract understanding of the cultural representation of women in Lezgin folklore. Attention is paid to the ideas concerning gender stereotypes that differ in various ethnic cultures, in connection with which the need to consider the sociocultural aspect for the display of the gender factor in Lezgin proverbs and sayings is revealed. The question is raised about the specific features, according to which the image of a woman, presented in Lezgin paremias, mainly represents negatively connotated gender stereotypes. It is noted that the influence of the “other” class ideology is manifested inconsistently and sometimes selectively because in Lezgin folklore, along with proverbs with a negative image of women, directly opposite texts with a positive image coexisted. In the article, special attention is paid to aphorisms in which a negative image of a woman and features of the manifestation of gender stereotypes in Lezgin culture emerge. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that this position has practically not been considered before and has not been studied on the basis of the Lezgin paremias. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the study of folk paremias with the identification features of the female image on specific factual material and the establishment of development paths and the reasons for the existence of this thematic group is currently the subject of increased attention among folklorists, linguists, culturologists, etc. The author dwells on the identification of the socio-cultural aspect of the standard and distinctive indicators of the female image. It is demonstrated that in order to display gender stereotypes, one should take into account the national identity of the people and also determine the place and role of women in the structure of family, family relationships and in society.
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Latjuba, Ade Yolanda. "WOMEN IN SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: A CASE STUDY OF THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN WORKERS IN BULUKUMBA TOURISM DESTINATIONS." Journal of Law and Sustainable Development 12, no. 4 (April 17, 2024): e3623. http://dx.doi.org/10.55908/sdgs.v12i4.3623.
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Objective: This study aims to explore the development of sustainable tourism in Bulukumba by focusing on female workers to obtain problem data that can be followed up further by policy makers.
Theoretical References: Tourism development is related to the 2030 SDGs agenda. This has been accepted as a tool to reduce poverty. In fact, many female workers work in the tourism industry, despite many obstacles. Apart from education, work can increase the existence and empowerment of women, whatever the job. Many women have social capital and motivation.
Method: Observation methods and in-depth interviews were used at the respondent's workplace, recording in detail their attitudes and language behavior. Empowerment will be measured from human capital, namely social capital and competence, as well as from the dimensions of language and interpersonal skills.
Results and Conclusion: Many female workers show behavior as socially empowered women, such as hardworking, independent, confident, friendly, alert, etc. However, there are also those who lack power, which can be seen in the use of language. Input for policy makers: the helplessness of young female workers due to short work experience and the lack of basic education for older female workers can be followed up by providing long-term training and regular skills courses.
Implication of the research: This research support the concept disseminated by feminist linguists regarding language research using a community of practice (CoP) approach.
Originality: I could certainly that the study likewise is never been conducted before.
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Bandoriūtė, Salomėja. "The targets and linguistic expression of mockery in contemporary jokes on gender." Lietuvių kalba, no. 5 (December 28, 2011): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/lk.2011.22798.
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The article concentrates on the targets and linguistic expression on mockery in contemporary jokes on gender. The jokes have been collected from the humour websites www.cha.lt, www.anekdotai.us, www.linksmas.net, www.anekdotai.biz, www.anekdotai.org, www.che.lt. The aim of the research is to find out what types of characters are usually chosen as targets of jokes and what linguistic means are employed to create the comic effect in them. In addition, the article deals with the conception of humour and joke as a genre and provides the key theories of humour research. The study has been carried out applying the method of qualitative content analysis. The results of the study suggest that the choice of the target of mockery in the jokes is often determined by the stereotypes that are common in society and by the tendency to express aggressive emotions in them. Usually the targets of mockery in the jokes are female characters, such as blondes, wives and mothers-in-law. There are approximately three times fewer jokes about men in comparison to women. The most common linguistic means employed to express mockery in the jokes are sarcasm, ambiguity, absurd and irony. It is common to come across cases of a few linguistic means in one joke as well. There has been a connection found between the employed linguistic means and the target of mockery as well as the society's view to it. The article could be valuable to linguists, folklorists, sociologists and psychologists who investigate the linguistic expression of humour, the effect of emotions on humour and the image of social groups in contemporary jokes.
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Popova, Tatiana I. "METACOMMUNICATIVE PRAGMATIC MARKERS: GENDER ASPECT." Вестник Пермского университета. Российская и зарубежная филология 13, no. 3 (2021): 40–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2073-6681-2021-3-40-50.
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The article deals with the use of metacommunicative pragmatic markers in the gender aspect, taking into account the social roles of the speaker. The research is carried out based on the data of the ORD corpus of Russian Everyday Speech, known as ‘One Speaker’s Day’, which contains transcripts of audio recordings obtained under natural conditions. The subsample includes about 200 thousand words. It features episodes of ‘speaker’s days’ of 15 women and 15 men belonging to three age groups. The informants act in various social roles, opposed by the principle of symmetry/asymmetry. Pragmatic annotation of the material and further discursive analysis have demonstrated that metacommunication is actively used in the speech of the informants, but it is much more common for the women’s speech. The men use markers of this type with specific speech tasks, for example, for a refusal (slushay / u menya net deneg <look / I have no money>); in the women’s speech, the variability of metacommunicative markers is wider but there is no functional diversity. This confirms the observations of linguists, obtained from the material of various languages, that women tend to cooperate and maintain dialogue to a greater extent than men. From the perspective of feminist linguistics, this feature of female speech is directly related to the issues of the women’s dependent position since it reflects their passivity and the habit of yielding. However, more than half of the detected uses belong to the speech of women of the older age group (from 55 years old) who communicate with relatives and friends, while in the younger age group the metacommunicative pragmatic markers become multifunctional and also act in speech as a start marker.
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Krinitskaya, Marina. "Linguistic and Pragmatic Potential of Advertising Names (As Exemplified by Names of Cosmetic Goods)." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 2. Jazykoznanije, no. 5 (January 2021): 133–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2020.5.12.
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The article focuses on specifics of advertising names given to cosmetic products. The purpose of work is to study the efficiency of the considered linguistic units influence on the addressee's perception, and to analyze the information value of these nominations. The associative experiment was carried out among Russian women within the framework of the study. The word trademarks of cosmetic products formed from toponyms and adjectival and genitive phrases were the stimulus material for the experiment. As a result, it was found out that the majority of advertising names for hair dyes, lipsticks, and lip gloss should be recognized ineffective from the point of view of informative value, because the ideas about color are noticeably different from the objective information which manufacturer or consumers demonstrate. The results of the study are of interest to advertising experts, marketing specialists and linguists, as well as the presented information can be useful in translation practice and creation of new advertising names. Conclusions are drawn that effectively operating advertising name is such a name that should be easily remembered, cause positive associations, be understandable to consumers, have emotional and evaluative connotation, which can appeal to the addressee's emotions, values.
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Cummings, Louise. "Pragmatic impairment and COVID-19." Intercultural Pragmatics 19, no. 3 (May 11, 2022): 271–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2022-3001.
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Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest global health threat in over 100 years. Its impact is seen in large numbers of premature deaths and the loss of economic stability for many millions of people. A significant number of people who contract the SARS-CoV-2 virus – the virus that causes COVID disease – experience symptoms many months after their acute illness. So-called Long COVID is now a recognized condition, with many affected individuals unable to return to work and engage in other daily activities. Among the complex symptoms of this condition is “brain fog”, a constellation of cognitive-linguistic problems that manifest as forgetfulness, word-finding difficulty, a lack of attention and concentration, and problems engaging in conversation. In this paper, I examine two women who had moderate COVID-19 infection during the first wave of the pandemic in Belgium and the UK. Both participants reported cognitive-linguistic difficulties several months after first becoming unwell. The UK participant is a native English speaker while the participant in Belgium speaks English as a second language. Case studies are used to examine their pre-morbid functioning and lifestyle, the onset and course of their COVID illness, and its impact on their language skills. It is argued that Long COVID has the potential to disrupt pragmatic and discourse skills even as structural language skills are intact. As such, this condition requires further systematic study by clinical linguists and speech-language pathologists.
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Murashova, L. P. "Gender asymmetries of the category “appearance” in the English language (based on the analysis of attributive-nominal word combinations with the core lexemes “man” and “woman”)." Linguistics & Polyglot Studies 10, no. 1 (March 29, 2024): 73–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2024-1-38-73-85.
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The relevance of this article is determined by the increasing interest in the asymmetries of gender-sensitive categories like “appearance” or “beauty”. The history of the issue and detailed results of contemporary studies in this field have been outlined in the article. The category of appearance has long been considered gender-biased and asymmetric, being related more to women than to men. Present-day studies offer support for the idea that notions of appearance and beauty are unevenly linked to women, resulting in a multitude of societal and individual difficulties. Certain modern linguists even argue that the concept of beauty is employed as a narrative to perpetuate women’s feelings of discontent and self-criticism. Our work presents an attempt to measure the relevance of this supposition against practical data of the semantic analysis of collocations with the core lexemes “man” and “woman”. A total of 2,814 noun phrases relevant to the category of appearance have been extracted from the texts of the British National Corpus of the English language. Three subcategories have been distinguished in the process of continuous sampling: parametric characteristics of appearance, general characteristics, and assessments. The method of comparative analysis allowed us to make conclusions regarding the degree of validity of assumptions about the asymmetry of the category of appearance in the English language. The analysis was carried out in two stages: the first stage required a general comparison of the amount and semantic nature of attribute-nominal word combinations with the core lexemes “man” and “woman”. The second stage of analysis was based on connotational analysis of nominal constructions semantics in the context of positive and negative characteristics of females’ and males’ appearance. The summary data of the study allowed us to present reliable evidence-based conclusions about the objective characteristics of the category of appearance. The study questions the widespread belief that the category of appearance is gender-biased and suggests considering it as a significant androgenic characteristic relevant to both men and women.
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KOTS, Tetiana. "VOCABULARY OF FEMININE PERSONAL NAMES IN UKRAINIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE: BETWEEN NORM AND DESTRUCTION." Culture of the Word, no. 99 (2023): 96–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.37919/0201-419x-2023.99.8.
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The article examines the dynamics of word formation of names of persons of the feminine gender during the 20th and early 21st centuries. The trends of prescriptive and descriptive norms in connection with non-linguistic factors of different historical periods are clarified. The vocabulary of feminine nouns had signs of natural language development until the end of the 20th century and acquired threatening proportions in the last decade, which can lead to the destruction of the phonetic, morphonological structure of the word and the literary norm in general. The issue of creating feminine names in the Ukrainian literary language has gained significant resonance in recent years. Among the reasons for its actualization, linguists cite the powerful socialization of modern women, their involvement in the spheres of “male” activity, state-building tendencies to assert national identity (“restoration” of the purity and authenticity of the language), the impact of the democratization of society on the literary standard. Language always responds to the demands of society and this is one of the drivers of its natural development, but provided that these changes correspond to its structural features, in the case of names of persons of the feminine gender, to the potential possibilities of word creation. As evidenced by language practice, this is the main and defining problem that can have not only negative, but also destructive consequences for the grammatical system in general. Any word-formation models are embedded in the language a priori, and have certain precedents throughout its historical development. The creation of personal names has a long tradition in the Ukrainian language and is primarily based on the principles of the internal structure of the dictionary. The most important and unchanged for all generations of linguists were the instructions of the norm-makers of 20th century on the natural development of the language, which is decisive for its life activity as a whole. At the current stage of language functioning, the normativity of a word depends on its compliance with the phonetic and morphological structure of the Ukrainian lexicon and the lexical norm in general.
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Badara, Aris, and Jamiludin Jamiludin. "Representation of Indonesian women workers: a critical discourse analysis on the newspapers of nationalist-secular and Islamic ideological perspectives." Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies 10, no. 1 (May 29, 2020): 79–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.18326/ijims.v10i1.79-101.
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The purpose of this study is to reveal the representation of women workers in newspaper news discourse that follows the nationalist-secular ideology and the Islamic ideology perspectives. The method of this research is a qualitative content analysis that views the text as a symbolic message and it requires interpretation according to the context. Complementing the research method, a critical discourse analysis approach is also used. The subjects of this research are female workers found in newspaper news discourse that carries the values of Islamic ideology and newspapers that carry nationalist-secular ideology. Data were analyzed through critical discourse analysis techniques in the following steps: (a) description; (b) interpretation; and (c) explanation. This research still considers checking the reliability and the validity. Data analysis is also complemented by confirmation of linguists and peers (triangulation of sources). The main findings of this study show that the practice of discourse in the RM newspaper which follows the nationalist-secular ideology perspective represents marginal women. By the RM newspaper, the representation is used as a plea for the actions and trait of male actors or employers. The motive revealed from this phenomenon is to follow the demand of the market. On the other hand, the newspaper R, which tends to follow Islamic ideology perspective, represents the motive of advocacy for women workers. This is the implication of the values of Islamic ideology carried out by the R newspaper as mentioned in its vision and mission. The findings are also the antithesis of the view that Islam isolates women in the social sphere of society.
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Sawchouk, Tetiana. "FEATURES OF THE AMERICAN GENDER ARGUMENTATIVE POLITICAL DISCOURSE." Grail of Science, no. 26 (April 24, 2023): 301–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.36074/grail-of-science.14.04.2023.054.
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It is a common knowledge that politics has been primarily associated with men and for a long time, and the role of women in political life has been neglected and ignored. However, together with the appearance of the Women's Movement, which originated in the United States almost two centuries ago, and the global growth of the role of the political communication, women became more powerful and gained the audience's attention not only in this particular field, but others spheres of life as well. Thus, gender issues are now within the scope of close attention of linguists, and there are different approaches to gender studies. This paper is devoted to the establishing of similarities and differences of American argumenatative discourse of both men and women, the way they express their opinions and provide arguments, whether different or not, regarding the pressing issues (economic crisis, terrorism, social equalitry, etc.) during the political compaing of 2008 and 2016. Speeches of representatives of three different parties, namely the Republican Party, The Democratic Party, which are the most influential parties in the USA, and the Green party, which assigned women to the highest position in the country during both compaigns, were chosen for the purpose of the study. In the paper gender issue were examined from the point of view of topics of the speeches, usage of various argumentation tactics, and emotionality of the statements. The results of the study may be used for futher exploration of pacularities of political discourse in general and gender discourse in particular.
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Pradid, Yurii. "Matronymic surnames (on the material of Ukrainian variants of Christian names)." Ukrainian Linguistics, no. 52 (2022): 32–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/um/52(2022).32-43.
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The article is devoted to the study of the methods of creating matronymic surnames, the most common derivative bases of which are the Ukrainian variants of the female Christian names Maria, Iryna, Elena, Melania, Evdokia, Paraska, from which a large part of the surnames of the inhabitants of Ukraine are formed, although the most popular in Ukraine are the names: Maria (2 076 561 women), Hanna (1 723 839 women), Valentina (1 267 461 women), Olga (1 203 052 women), and Galina (1 150 500 women). The most productive method of creating matronymic surnames was determined to be suffixation: out of 139 studied matronymic surnames, 124 were formed by the suffix method, while 7 were formed by the unaffixed method, and 8 by other methods (adding the inflection –o to the base; identity of the surname of the first name). Comparative characteristics of microsystems of anthroponyms “Matronymic surnames” and “Patronymic surnames” allowed us to draw conclusions: the majority of surnames originate from male names and only one in four – from female ones; the compared microsystems of anthroponyms have common and specific suffix formants for each of them. 27 suffixes are used to create surnames from male names, 16 suffixes – from female names, but only 4 of them are typical for creating surnames only from female names, while other 12 suffixes are common for creating surnames from male and female names. The study also confirms the opinion, previously expressed by Ukrainian linguists, that the vast majority of surnames (both matronymic and patronymic) that come from Ukrainian variants of Christian names are formed with the help of the suffixes –енк- (-єнк-) and –ук (-юк). According to the frequency analysis, suffixes -енк- (-єнк-) form the word-forming structure of 45 surnames, while suffixes -ук (-юк) – 39 surnames.
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Dover, Nathan John. "A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF A VINTAGE AMERICAN AIRLINES ADVERTISEMENT." Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching 5, no. 1 (June 27, 2021): 48–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.30743/ll.v5i1.3235.
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Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a rapidly increasing area of study used by Applied Linguists to examine discourse, that is spoken or written communication, found in areas such as education, media and politics. CDA studies focus on the relationship between society and discourse and how the use of language reinforces already established societal roles. This paper focused on a vintage American Airlines advertisement of 1968 which is a classic example of utilitarian advertising that purported a false reality of air travel in the late 20th century. Using the three-dimensional CDA framework designed by Fairclough (1989) the results showed a manipulation of gender roles by the advertisers intended to appeal to the male dominated passengers of the airline. Primarily, the alignment of air hostess with that of a mother. The maternalisation of this profession reflected the advertisers’ views of the time and in a wider societal perspective, power inequalities between men and women.
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Манел, Беррефас. "THE USE OF FEMALE NAMES BY LYUDMILA ULITSKAYA ON THE MATERIAL OF THE NOVELS "SONECHKA" AND "MEDEA AND HER CHILDREN"." НАУЧНЫЙ ЖУРНАЛ СОВРЕМЕННЫЕ ЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКИЕ И МЕТОДИКО-ДИДАКТИЧЕСКИЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ, no. 3(55) (October 14, 2022): 88–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.36622/vstu.2022.23.91.008.
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Постановка задачи. Статья посвящена изучению употребления женских имен у Людмилы Улицкой на материале произведений "Сонечка" и "Медея и её дети", т.к. в контексте современной литературы наблюдается несколько факторов выбора «женской прозы»: автор - женщина, героиня - женщина. Эти вопросы тесно связаны с жизнью женщин, их особыми стилистическими и смысловыми метафорами с точки зрения лексики, семантики и ономастики. Результаты. В данной работе проанализировано творчество женщин-писательниц, описан феномен употребления женских имен в произведениях писательниц на примере избранного творчества Людмилы Улицкой. Этот феномен изучают языковеды, лингвисты, историки и социологи. В исследовании решается вопрос об определении возможностей использования имён собственных как источника отражения реальных событий и средство лингволитературоведческой интерпретации художественных произведений. Выводы. Анализируя произведения "Сонечка" и "Медея и её дети", мы пришли к выводу о том, что писательница рисует тип современной женщины с богатым внутренним и глубинным миром, обнаруживающий непреодолимую тягу к своей семье. На основе проведённого исследования можно утверждать, что писательница использует женские имена для создания женского образа. Имя главной героини всегда выполняет роль знака-символа, который выводит читателя на классические произведения, где обычно все героини в русской литературе, наделенные этими именами, обладают определёнными чертами характера. Statement of the problem. The paper is devoted to the study of the use of some female names by Lyudmila Ulitskaya on the material of the works "Sonechka" and "Medea and her children", because in the context of modern literature there are several factors of the choice of "female prose": the author is a woman, the main character is a woman. These issues are closely related to the lives of women, their special stylistic and semantic metaphors from the point of view of vocabulary, semantics and onomastics. Results. In this paper, the creativity of women writers is analyzed, the phenomenon of the use of the female names in the works of writers is described on the example of the selected works by Lyudmila Ulitskaya. This phenomenon has been studied by many linguists, historians and sociologists. The study addresses the issue of determining the possibilities of using some proper names as a source of reflection about real events and a means of linguistic and literary interpretation of the works of art. Conclusion. Analyzing the art works "Sonechka" and "Medea and her children", we could come to the conclusion that the writer draws a type of a modern woman with a rich inner and deep world, revealing an irresistible devotion to her family. Based on the conducted research, it can be argued that the writer uses female names to create a female art image. The name of the main character always plays the role of a sign-symbol that leads the reader to classical works, where usually all the heroines in the Russian literature, endowed with these names, have particular character traits.
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Baugh, John. "Linguistic emancipation." Language 99, no. 4 (December 2023): 809–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2023.a914194.
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Abstract: The term linguistic emancipation embraces various interpretations. One relates to occasions where linguists have helped people overcome problems that are attributable to various linguistic calamities. Another pertinent vector relates to methodological innovations that extricate linguistic research from methodological confinement and that embrace new technologies to help advance our collective scientific mission. These alternative perspectives are illustrated here in small measure through studies of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and gender modification in the speech of a trans woman. The legacy of inventive methodological advances in linguistics is celebrated by emphasizing some liberating linguistic research trajectories in which experimental, self-generated data and descriptive investigations of endangered and underrepresented languages or dialects stand side by side, serving a comprehensive linguistic science in which alternative analytical procedures abound in harmonious complementarity.
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LUKYANTSEVA, Polina. "ANALYSIS OF IMAGES OF ABUSIVE MOTHERS ON EXAMPLES OF TWO NOVELS THE TIME: NIGHT AND OUR CIRCLE WRITTEN BY L. PETRUSHEVSKAYA." Astraea 3, no. 1 (2022): 79–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.34142/astraea.2021.3.1.05.
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Power relations, analysis, and interpretation have been a research field of great interest for psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other scholars. Even Sigmund Freud said that desire for power might be interpreted as a manifestation of libido. This research interest centered around two controversial novels of L. Petrushevskaya, The Time: Night (Время ночь, 1992) and Our Circle (Свой круг, 1988). It explained the meaning of female power relations in the Soviet family and the definition of women’s dominance in the family. This study aimed to investigate the idea of power relations through the mother’s image in the prose of Soviet and Russian post-war female writer Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (1938-); to understand its connection with mother’s love. Subjects of this study were novels Our Circle and The Time: Night. They were chosen because of the following reasons. First, the author raises social topics and talks about domestic violence in these novels. Second, the author explores the psychological characteristics of women (=mothers). In this research, the following methods were employed. The language and images of mothers presented in prose will be examined through the textual analysis research method. On top of it, this research represents the systematic analysis of the narrative patterns through which motherhood was studied. Due to the chosen approach, the following conclusion was made. An image of a powerful or abusive woman (mother) might be interpreted as a destructive woman, whose actions lead to catharsis, and to her daughter/son’s freedom. On the other hand, it can be interpreted as an act of pure mother’s love.
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Nedostupova, L. V. "WOMEN'S UNOFFICIAL NAMES IN VYSOKY VILLAGE AND THEIR REFLECTION IN THE DIALECT PICTURE OF THE WORLD." Modern Linguistic and Methodical-and-Didactic Researches, no. 3(34) (December 31, 2021): 70–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.36622/mlmdr.2021.81.85.007.
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Statement of the problem. The study examines the anthroponyms that represent women in appearance, inferiority, speech and voice, character traits, temperament, culinary preferences, occupation, position, attitude to work, and their reflection in the dialectal picture of the world of the inhabitants of the small village of Vysoky Talovsky district of the Voronezh region In the process of work, the peculiar features and characteristics of the image of the fairer sex were determined, which are approved and disapproved in the village society. The appeal to the living folk speech, functioning in the mouths of the indigenous villagers, with the aim of studying with the subsequent preservation of linguistic materials, is relevant, since it contains modern information about a whole generation of people and their relationships in the team. Results. During the survey, 43 unofficial names were described, represented by 7 thematic groups. The most productive group has been identified - anthroponyms, data on a person's appearance, and the smallest - street naming for inferiority. It was revealed that 5 people have 2 nicknames, 1 woman is considered the owner of 4 nicknames, which she received for features of appearance and behavior. The names-metaphors, marking their carriers, have been established. They are represented by a multitude of emerging associations: with a dragonfly, a planet of the solar system, an installation for processing meat or fish, an ironing object, a river, a weapon, a bird, a poisonous plant, a supervisory institution, a rock band, etc. Functioning anthroponyms are expressed by nouns and adjectives, formed in two ways: suffix and base addition. With the help of the considered lexical units, an ideal female image with its inherent features is presented. The qualities of its antipode are demonstrated. Conclusion. The carried out research has determined the use in the folk language of the peculiar street names of women, which are part of the dialectal picture of the world of Vysochan. It is subject to certain conventional norms and rules, known only to local residents, developed by themselves for convenience in interpersonal communication. The reflection of the picture of the world through nicknames testifies to the rich vocabulary, imagination and fantasy of dialect carriers. It also reveals the state of the local dialect in our time - living, actively developing, original. The world of each and every one individually, naturalness and simplicity - such is the content of the picture of the world of a village man. The presented research supplements the few available works of Voronezh linguists-dialectologists and onomasts and contributes to the study of local anthroponymy.
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Ispandiyarova, A., and A. Absadyk. "THE CONCEPT “WOMAN” IN KAZAKH FOLK LYRICS." Bulletin of the Eurasian Humanities Institute, Philology Series, no. 1 (March 15, 2024): 133–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.55808/1999-4214.2024-1.10.
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Our article deals with the concept of “woman” in Kazakh folk lyrics. A woman has a special place in Kazakh society. The lives of women who are the mentors of men and educators of children in life are different. A woman is a living being, the catalyst of the house. She is a dear mother, an honorable sister, a noble grandmother. Therefore, we think that the topic of women is one of the eternal topics. It is clear that the linguistic units that define the concept of “woman” are given in the national worldview in the work Babalar selo, which is taken as the object of our research. In addition, when the lexeme of a woman is a word, it is quite natural that it is connected with the equivalents of a woman as a role model, a woman who is loyal to love, and a woman as a mother. The main goal of our article is to define the expression of the concept of woman in the language of Kazakh folk lyrics. Explanations of the concept of woman were given from explanatory dictionaries of the Kazakh language, and its meaning was revealed. Frames showing the existence and life of the Kazakh people were analyzed. By making a conceptual analysis of the language Word of Ancestors, the theoretical significance of the study is to form an understanding of the concepts of woman-mother, woman-owner of life, wife-husband, woman-child founder in the Kazakh worldview. The theoretical results of the work can be used in courses such as Cognitive Linguistics, Ethnolinguistics, Linguistics, Text Linguistics. Also, it can be used as an auxiliary material in practical lessons on the subjects of Stylistics and language culture, literary text linguistic analysis.
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ISSAYEVA, Zh I. "LINGVOGENDERAL BASIS OF «MAN» IMAGE IN THE PAREMIOLOGICAL WORLD." Iasaýı ýnıversıtetіnіń habarshysy 123, no. 1 (March 15, 2022): 44–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.47526/2022-1/2664-0686.04.
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In this article, the binary pair «Woman: Man», which constitutes the gender characteristic of the macro system «Man», an integral part of the triad «Man-Society-Nature», in the paremiological image of the world is divided into two separate, independent concepts – «Woman» and «Man». In Kazakh paremiology linguistic characteristics of the concepts «woman» and «man» is provided by the integrity of multilevel micro-frame items of social, socio-ritual, socio-psychological content, reflecting the relationship of social status roles «boy – girl», «father» – «mother», «girl» – «guy», «bride» – «groom», «woman» – «man» and others. As a result of inter-branch communication between the image of a man with «masculine traits» formed in ethnic consciousness and the image of a woman with «feminine traits» is the image of a «Man» in the language which has been passed through the «sieve» of national culture. It is determined that gender is the result of a culture that reflects the idea of feminine tenderness and masculine courage, embedded in the traditions, customs, folklore and language of the people. It is assumed that in the collective consciousness of the ethnogenetic community there are gender stereotypes in any case, i.e. simplified or expanded concepts about the characteristics and peculiarities of women and men. Gender linguistics is a new scientific direction in linguistics, which arose in connection with the study of differences in the use of words by men and women in Kazakh linguistics. In the linguistic picture of the world, it is proved that the «female» and «male» signs of the binary pair «woman-man» are marked as a qualitative indicator of the conceptual apparatus of the «Man» macrosystem.
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Jakaitė-Bulbukienė, Kristina, and Neringa Micutaitė. "Language Editors: Job Prestige, Influence on Language and Perceived Threats." Lietuvių kalba 18 (May 29, 2023): 8–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/lk.2023.2.
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The object of this work is to analyse Lithuanian language editors‘ self-assessment of their own work, to see how they are influenced by societal attitudes, and to uncover their relationship to Lithuanian language. These aspects help to investigate the linguistic attitudes of Lithuanian language editors. This is analysis of 10 qualitative in-depth semi-structured interviews with Lithuanian language editors. The texts edited by the participants vary in their nature. All informants are women. Nine interviews have been conducted orally and one in writing. The method applied is qualitative content analysis of the interviews. It has been found that the informants of the study feel that there are critical, skeptical attitudes towards language editors and linguists in general in the public sphere. Editors also often hear inaccurate assessments of their profession from inner cycle. However, most of them do not take such attitudes seriously and do their work without taking them into account. It has been found that most of the informants feel that they contribute to the development of the Lithuanian language and that they influence the language. This is because even editors with extensive editing experience are constantly confronted with new phenomena. Most of the informants of this study have told they can edit freely, are trusted by clients or writers, and are not constrained making their decisions. Editors have also answered that they have a mission to enrich and purify language. A small number of informants of the study have told that they do not see themselves as language creators, but only as executors of the already established language policy. Some editors have indicated they want to stop the influence of English to Lithuanian, while others believe that the influence of other languages is a natural phenomenon, and stress that the language is impoverished by an excessive desire to purify it.
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Facci, Serena, and Alessandra Ciucci. "The Akazehe of Burundi: Polyphonic Interlocking Greetings and the Female Ceremonial. By Serena Facci. Translated by Alessandra Ciucci." Ethnomusicology Translations, no. 10 (April 24, 2020): 1–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.14434/emt.v0i10.30278.
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Akazehe is one of the names in Burundi for forms of sung greeting performed exclusively by women. Studies carried out during the colonial era (in particular Rodegem 1965, 1973) and in more recent times (Ndimurwanko 1985-6) have shown how the contents of these greetings among women are closely linked to the feminine world in which these greetings are used—in specific private and public spaces in accordance with rural tradition. Although these greetings were becoming less common at the time the research for this article was conducted, the author was able to record a number of akazehe after listening to examples of them in the sound archives of the Centre de civilisation burundaise.
A greeting is defined by linguists as a formalized parenthesis that defines, reiterates, and encloses the relation between two participants. The formulaic character of a greeting makes it different from ordinary speech. In the case of the akazehe, the greeting emphasizes gestural and sound qualities to such an extent that it creates a veritable musical texture.
This article presents transcriptions and analysis of some models of akazehe, focusing on one that features procedures of vocal interlocking. The two parts—gutera and kwakira—are organized according to musical rules that manifest a strong spirit of cooperation between the two women who sing the two parts in dialogue. Furthermore, well-defined rules of exchange for the two roles semantically remind us of the social equality between the two participants. The musical enrichment of the time reserved for the greeting is experienced as amusing by the performers. The greeting also represents an opportunity for artistic expression in a social reality that otherwise allows few performance spaces for women.
Citation: Facci, Serena. The Akazehe of Burundi: Polyphonic Interlocking Greetings and the Female Ceremonial. Translated by Alessandria Ciucci. Ethnomusicology Translations, no. 10. Bloomington, IN: Society for Ethnomusicology, 2020.
Originally published in Italian as "Akazehe del Burundi: saluti a incastro polifonico e cerimonialità femminile." In Polifonie: Procedimenti, tassonomi e forme: una reflessione a più voci, edited by Maurizio Agamennone, 123-61. Roma: Bulzoni Editore, 1996.
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Milles, Karin. "”Klitoris orsakar orgasm”. Kön och sexualitet i svenska ordböcker." Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 30, no. 2-3 (June 14, 2022): 119–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.55870/tgv.v30i2-3.3748.
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The article deals with the construction of gender and sexuality in contemporary Swedish dictionaries. Feminist linguists have pointed out the reproductive force of dictionaries and shown their sexist attitudes towards women. Traditionally, dictionaries are compiled by men for men in a patriarchal society, based on the speech and writing of men. And dictionaries not only tell us about the views and attitudes of the society, they also actively reinforce and reproduce those views. Central words for sexual organs and sexual activities in nine Swedish dictionaries have been analysed. The analysis shows that the female sexuality is not made invisible or passive in a systematic way. For example, the clitoris is described as an active organ “causing orgasm” in two of the dictionaries and the definition of intercourse given in a dictionary intended for use in compulsory school is at least partly non-heterosexist. Dictionaries from the twenty-first century have also included a neutral colloquial word for the female genitalia – which has been thought of as absent in Swedish. All this can be interpreted as an effect of the relatively strong political influence of feminism, struggle for gender equity and the gay movement in Sweden in the past decade. And due to the reproductive force of the dictionaries, this is a good sign of progress.
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Maryani, Mila, and Reinita Reinita. "Effectiveness of Electronic Teaching Materials Using the Value Clarification Technique Approach in Elementary Schools." Lectura : Jurnal Pendidikan 15, no. 1 (February 3, 2024): 287–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.31849/lectura.v15i1.18931.
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The Indonesian government has taken professional competence, the ability to think creatively and learn new things, and fluency with modern forms of communication, information, and technology as its guiding principles. The Indonesian government has made information and technology proficiency a cornerstone of modern education. With the help of technical advancements in learning media, the area of education benefits from the use of technology that may facilitate the learning process. In primary schools, this research will use the Value Clarification Technique approach matrix model to find out how effective electronic teaching resources are for Pancasila Elements. The final output is a set of electronic teaching materials that have undergone rigorous validity testing by three different sets of specialists: material scientists, linguists, and media specialists. This study used a one-group Pretest-Posttest design, which is common in pre-experimental research. Thirteen women and twelve men made up the total of twenty-five participants in this research, which included both instructors and pupils. A test is the tool that this study use. Wilcoxon test and N-Gain value calculation are the data analysis techniques used. According to the study's findings, students in fourth grade at an elementary school that used electronic teaching materials based on the Value Clarification Technique approach matrix model learned more about Pancasila components.
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Vujić, Jelena, Mirjana Daničić, and Tamara Aralica. "Caught in the cross-fire: Tackling hate speech from the perspective of language and translation pedagogy." Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 14, no. 1 (June 26, 2018): 203–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lpp-2018-0010.
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Abstract Hate speech is a phenomenon which has been in the focus of scholarly interest of linguists, philosophers, sociologists, human-rights advocates, legal and media experts. Much of this interest has been devoted to establishing criteria for identifying what constitutes hate speech across disciplines. In this paper, we argue that hate speech has profiled as a distinct subgenre of the language of politics with typical patterns and ways of addressing which can be recognized in political campaigns across the world. Therefore, we present the findings of the case study of translation exercises of English and Serbian texts containing samples of hateful language during presidential campaigns in the USA and Serbia in 2016 and 2017. Our aim is to identify the linguistico-pragmatic commonalities of hate speech in Serbian and English and examine students’ attitudes towards ethically and morally challenging language contents in their mother tongue (L1) and English as their foreign language (L2). The results indicate that in both English and Serbian the same groups (e.g. members of ethnic minorities or LGBT population, women etc.) are targeted with the hateful language which in both languages uses vulgarisms, taboo words, sexist and chauvinistic declarative expressions to achieve political goals. In addition, L1>L2 and L2>L1 translation data indicate that personal moral and ethical norms in translators are stronger in L1 thus restrictively affecting translational L2>L1 output.
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Henritiusa, Lingita Lina. "Ebrejs vai žīds? Čigāns vai roms?" Scriptus Manet: humanitāro un mākslas zinātņu žurnāls = Scriptus Manet: Journal of Humanities and Arts, no. 14 (December 19, 2022): 18–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.37384/sm.2022.14.018.
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The aim of the article is to reflect the semantics of the names of different nationalities in the perception of modern society. For this purpose, the article’s author created a survey and asked users of various social networks (Twitter.com, Facebook.com, Draugiem.lv) to participate from February 1st to 9th, 2022. The questionnaire was filled by 419 respondents, of whom 305 were women, and 114 were men. The respondents were Latvians living in Latvia or abroad. The respondents had to evaluate 15 different concepts to assess whether the connotation (a feeling or idea that is suggested by a particular word, although it need not be a part of the word’s meaning, or something suggested by an object or situation) of their messages was positive, neutral, negative or difficult to determine. The article looks at 8 of the 15 presented concepts: žīds, ebrejs, nēģeris, melnādainais, čigāns, roms, krievs, krievvalodīgais. The object of research is the data obtained in the questionnaire. The method of data analysis used is quantitative content analysis. Although nowadays, Latvian linguists have indicated that the term nēģeris does not have a negative connotation, half of the respondents believe that this term has a negative message. Even though the term žīds has not had a negative connotation in the past, 71 % of respondents indicated that it has a negative connotation.
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Bakalova, Ekaterina. "Pragmatic Features of Code-switches in Gender-oriented Glossy Magazines." Athens Journal of Philology 11, no. 1 (February 20, 2024): 97–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/ajp.11-1-4.
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Linguists all over the world have conducted various research on how gender affects language. Code-switches, as one of the forms of bilingual speech, interact with many variables, including gender. This paper provides insights on the phenomenon of code-switches in mass media discourse, specifically in modern glossy magazines Elle and Gentlemen’s Quarterly. We focus our analysis mostly on pragmatic and gender aspects. The objective of the research is to illustrate how the code-switch patterns differ by gender in terms of frequency and pragmatic use. We collected the data from two gender-oriented glossy magazines. The theoretical and conceptual background of the study is the Matrix Language Frame Model by C. Myers-Scotton and the functional classification of code-switches by G. Chirsheva. Findings indicate that code-switches in glossy magazines have eight different functions: topic-related, effort-saving, quotational, self-identification, humorous, metalinguistic, addressee-oriented and emotional. One of the major research results expressed in numerical form: journalists use twice as many code-switches in Elle in comparison to Gentlemen’s Quarterly (434 and 234, respectively). The contrastive analysis has also shown that code-switches perform common and specific pragmatic functions in women-oriented and in men-oriented glossy publications. Keywords: bilingualism in media discourse, code-switch, glossy magazine, gender in language, pragmatic features of code-switches
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AICHOUR, Feiza. "TOWARDS A FEMINIZATION OF JOB NAMES: SOCIAL RESISTANCE OR/AND LINGUISTIC EVOLUTION?" RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 4, no. 6 (November 1, 2022): 572–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8293.20.34.
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The feminization of job names is a linguistic development that aims to designate job names in feminized forms. This conveys a lot of resistance, largely socio-cultural and linguistic. It involves a crosscutting approach using language policy, without forgetting the socio-cultural point of view. For some job names, it is difficult to find an equivalent in the feminine. The problem lies fundamentally in the nouns with a unique masculine gender used to designate jobs traditionally for men, to which women now have access. How to name a woman "firefighter"? The field of investigation hereby explored relates to the semantic and morphosyntactic networks which refer to the names of jobs used in the feminine form in the French linguistic system. Despite current attempts at feminization, there exist opponents to the feminization of job names. Keywords: Applied Linguistics, Feminization, Job Names, Resistance, Linguistic Evolution, Hesitations
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Shevchuk, Tetiana. "Folklore of Ukrainian Prisoners of War of the Period of the First World War (After the Materials of the Phonogram Archives of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)." Slov'ânsʹkij svìt, no. 21 (December 30, 2022): 100–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/slavicworld2022.21.100.
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The article is devoted to the peculiarities of a large-scale anthropological project initiated in 1915 by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. It is provided, in particular, for the phonographic fixation of the examples of spoken language of war prisoners of various nationalities who fought on the side of the Russian Empire: Armenians, Jews, Latvians, Lithuanians, Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians, etc. These audio recordings, kept in the Phonogram Archives of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for more than a century, have been introduced into scientific discourse in 2018. They are encrypted and transcribed into Latin. There are the examples of folklore culture of the Ukrainians provided by 17 informants from 8 governorates of the Russian Empire of that time: Chernihiv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, Kherson, Katerynoslav, Volyn and Voronezh. Among the list of inhabited areas, where the Ukrainian informants are originated from, we come across the infamous names of the present-day Russian-Ukrainian war: Olenivka, Bakhmut (Donetsk region), Kupiansk (Kharkiv region). Recordings have been made during July–September, 1915 and in 1916 in the war prisoners’ camps in Freistadt (Austria), Reichenberg (now Liberec, the Czech Republic) and in the Vienna hospital. They have been initiated by the famous anthropologist Rudolf Pöch (1870–1921), a native of Ternopil. He has been assisted by the Vienna language expert Hans Pollak (1885–1976) and the Ukrainian linguist and folklore specialist Ivan Pankevych (1887–1958), a graduate of the University of Vienna. Using the phonograph, these researchers have recorded the folk texts of different genres: the Cossack prayers, songs of literary origin, fairy tales (about animals and of novelistic nature), jokes, stories about the summer cycle calendar customs (in particular, about the women ritual dinner called bryksy) and dreams. The characteristic feature of these texts consists of the transformation of the song-like narrative into a prose; they are a valuable field material not only for the folklore specialists, but also for historians and linguists. Audio-recordings, provided by the Ukrainian war prisoners, form a part of 1899–1950s collection of the Phonogram Archives of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and are included into the UNESCO Register of Documentary Heritage Memory of the World / Memory of Humanity.
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Polyakova, Evgeniya, and Mikhail Manokin. "Cultural Professions in Modern-Day Russia: Statistical Portrait of the Workers." Journal of Economic Sociology 22, no. 1 (2021): 35–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1726-3247-2021-1-35-60.
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In this study, we aim to provide a statistical portrait of employment in the cultural field with regard to occupations on the Russian labor market. The data from the ‘Comprehensive Monitoring of Living Conditions’ are used to illustrate the main differences in the socio-demographic and occupational characteristics of culturally employed respondents and other professional groups. Additionally, the most relevant factors that may have an impact on individuals’ probability to be cultural workers are analyzed. Our study is based on the theoretical frameworks of U. Beck, R. Florida, J. Urry, and Z. Bauman. We also consider the possible Soviet legacy of the contemporary Russian culture, which may interconnect with labor conditions in this field, using S. Fitzpatrick’s works. We also provide an overview of other relevant studies. Our findings show that a larger number of cultural workers among the respondents are librarians, archivists, teachers of music and art schools, linguists, museum workers, journalists, and writers. The results on the statistical portrait display that on average, the cultural workers are highly educated married women in their forties or older who live predominantly in the largest regions of the Russian Federation (Moscow and Moscow region, St. Petersburg). Almost three-quarters of the group have relevant education. They are mostly regular full-time employees with a daytime work schedule. We have also found that the most influential factors for becoming cultural workers are the region of residence and relevant professional education.
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POGORETSKAYA, О. А. "To the question of androcentrism of the grammatical category of gender in Italian language." Issues of Applied Linguistics, no. 53 (2024): 112–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.25076/vpl.53.05.
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The article analyses the processes of feminisation of some nouns occurring in the Italian language in connection with the struggle against the manifestations of masculine mentality. The asymmetry of feminine and masculine genders in the declension of nouns and adjectives is fixed in the Italian language at the grammatical level. However, in recent decades, due to the growth of feminist sentiments in the world and the increasing attention to social gender, this grammatical norm has caused more and more disputes in Italian society, the use of the masculine gender is undergoing a kind of gender censorship. The established gender hierarchy of language has been perceived by some politicians and cultural figures as incorrect, disadvantaging the representation of women in discourse, especially when it comes to the so-called "nomi di ruolo" - nouns denoting staff positions (mayor, councillor, chairman, prime minister, judge). Gender markers, which are natural for the language, receive additional connotative meaning, their semantic significance expands: along with the grammatical category, they begin to express the speaker's social position, his views on the political agenda in relation to feminist sentiments. The paper will examine gender in Italian as a grammatical category, then highlight the main grammatical tools that Italian linguists propose to use in order to equalise the asymmetry of femininity and masculinity in modern Italian. Different perspectives of native Italian speakers on such grammatical changes in the category of gender will be presented and possible options for levelling the asymmetry towards androcentrism will be analysed.
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Thomas, Margaret. "Otto Jespersen and “The Woman”, then and now." Historiographia Linguistica 40, no. 3 (September 3, 2013): 377–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.40.3.03tho.
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Summary Danish linguist Otto Jespersen’s (1860–1943) Language, its Nature, Development, and Origin was published more than 90 years ago, in 1922. This article focuses on Jespersen’s often-cited Chapter 13, entitled “The Woman”, a text that has served since the 1970s as a touchstone for feminist narratives of the history of discussion of language and gender. The author of the present article shows that modern treatment of the chapter sometimes misconstrues Jespersen in casting him into the role of mouthpiece for ideas about women and language that contemporary scholars have discredited. She suggests instead that “The Woman” deserves a new reading, which neither apologizes for Jespersen’s views, nor diminishes his importance to the history of feminist linguistics, but rather recognizes the intricacies of this text and seeks to better understand its position in relation to present-day scholarship on language and gender.