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1. Theories of discourse as theories of gender: discourse analysis in language and
gender studies
1.1 The concept of discourse in linguistics
Media, being a component of interiorization, plays the important role in the
course of gender socialization. Occurrence of «new journalism» and the information
addressed exclusively to women has been noted in the end of the XIX century.
Gradually press «feminization» was replaced «equalization» that has caused serious
discussions on a wave of success of feminist movement. Thereof the tendency of
dedication of researches to women in journalism was in the early eighties of the XX
century observed, however basically in socially - economic aspect; after there was
variety of the works devoted to studying of gender relations in journalism, and also to
transformations in public consciousness concerning a role of women and information
representation. The given fact was an incitement to start the discourse analysis, in
particular media, as display means in it of new realities of our society. The given
researches of a media discourse are connected not only with the language use, but also
with communicator of speeches, society and culture. Thus, the discourse-analysis
covers such academic disciplines which focus attention to various aspects of human
activity: anthropology, journalism, rhetoric, the literature and cultural science,
sociology, psychology, geography, jurisprudence and formation. Therefore nonlinguists address in the works to linguistics by means of discourse-analysis studying,
and work of philologists gets interdisciplinary value.
The given work views of modern researchers as Т. Van Dake, J. Austin, J. Searle,
M. Fuko, E. Goffmana, S.I. Vinogradova, B.P. Parshin, V.Z. Demjankova, J.S.
Stepanova on the given subject «discourse» are presented and also various approaches
for an analysis discourse are offered. Its introduction to modern science the term
'discourse' has taken various, sometimes very broad, meanings. In order to specify
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which of the numerous senses is analyzed in the following work it has to be defined.
Originally the word 'discourse' comes from Latin 'discursus' which denoted
'conversation, speech'. Thus understood, however, discourse refers to too wide an area
of human life, therefore only discourse from the vantage point of linguistics, and
especially applied linguistics, is explained here. There is no agreement among linguists
as to the use of the term discourse in that some use it in reference to texts, while others
claim it denotes speech which is for instance illustrated by the following definition:
«Discourse: a continuous stretch of (especially spoken) language larger than a sentence,
often constituting a coherent unit such as a sermon, argument, joke, or narrative» [1,
105]. On the other hand Dakowska, being aware of differences between kinds of
discourses indicates the unity of communicative intentions as a vital element of each of
them. Consequently she suggests using terms 'text' and 'discourse' almost
interchangeably betokening the former refers to the linguistic product, while the latter
implies the entire dynamics of the processes [2, 81]. According to Cook novels, as well
as short conversations or groans might be equally rightfully named discourses. Concept
of «discourse» is very helpful in understanding why men must resist negative
stereotypes of their gender imposed by those with a negative mind-set. Discourse is a
term that is often used synonymously with «ideology». However, it is much more than
this, and is a central concept in trying to make sense of the contested area of
understanding gender.
S. Stepanov believes that the discourse is «language in language», but presented
in the form of a special social reality [3, 11]. The discourse exists, mainly, in texts, but
there is a special grammar, a special lexicon, special rules of the use and syntax, special
semantics. The phenomenon of a discourse, its possibilities are the proof of the thesis
«language is the house of spirit» and, to a certain extent, of the thesis - «language is the
life house». V.Z. Demjankov defines a discourse as the text in its formation before a
mind of the interpreter which consists of sentences or its fragments, and the contents of
discourse often but not always concentrates around some «basic» concept, named «the
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topic discourse» or «discursive topic» [4, 32-43]. The given definitions for such
concepts, as a discourse and the text are intertwined. But what is the difference of a
discourse from the text? The text is a set of sentences, and the discourse is the base
creating the text contextually connected. According to V.Z. Demjankov, it is considered
that discourse is the existence of the mental world which nuclear structures are
«idealized cognitive models», «frames» or concepts behind text frameworks. The set
of given structures will make semantic system, semantics of the mental world.
Discourse also differs from the act of communication representing natural activity of
people in a society - the most widespread form of use of language which covers
linguistic activity. At the same time, even if the act of communication concerns the
most widespread functions of language use, it all the same is the text of the certain kind
constructed by rules of social use. Thus, the term «discourse», according to M. Stabbs,
in connection with the discourse-analysis and the analysis of the act of communications
is not the same. The former contains the latter; therefore the discourse-analysis should
not be interpreted as the special grammatical-focused direction of the analysis of the
act of communication [5, 4]. Discourse in metapragmatical conditions is presented not
only as a perceived context: conversation, interview, consultations, interrogation etc.,
but it also covers extralinguistic conditions which operate the given situations of
language use. Thus, there are questions: how people use language in the given social
context? What freedom is given to them in the use of language and what interferes with
it depending on a context? The act of communications and the world of the user there
is something more, that enters into philosophy of the act of communication: the reason
that human language activity underlies on the basis of laws of more subject domain - a
discourse understood as the general context of human language in use. The
metapragmatism, thus, is beyond philosophy of act of communication: it reflects
discursive context and checks, how much it is active as a result of use of acts of
language dialogue, the latters are considered in the conditions of a context as they are
pragmatic acts on the essence. Thus, according to G. May, active manufacture of
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pragmatic acts naturally assumes the existence of a certain society with its implicit and
explicit values, norms, rules and laws and the established conditions of life: economic,
social, political and cultural. These conditions concern one metaphorical expression «society factory» - and become visible (basically by means of language and other kinds
of human activity) and are covered by one concept «discourse». French philosopher M.
Fuko characterizes a discourse as the practice of creation of sense from signs. This
practice falls outside the limits of simple understanding of statements: sense creation
should be perceived as active creation of value, as practice which regularly forms
subjects about which she speaks. Discursive space is the huge chaos, ready to accept
language and word influence. And on the contrary, discursive space equips with
metapragmatically necessary material for value creation. Out of the given space where
objects are created, and nothing occurs: no human practice is possible, as polyliterally
nothing has sense [6, 191]. Conditions which M. Fuko places into human practice of
manufacture of value make a discourse different from a simple set of sentences and
statements. As the given conditions are realized be communicators, they cannot be
identified with the restrictions established by grammar, the content and even rules of
colloquial practice; falling outside the limits all of them, they represent a sociality of
the person. Discourse practice is a practice of a society: creative space in which M.
Fuko's objects appear, and created and transformed by a society. Among the objects
generated by a society in discursive practice, human social relations are the main; the
discourse, thus, according to M. Fuko, represents the plural phenomenon, through
which social manufacture of value takes place, and their set creates a society as that.
Discourse creates and recreates public relations: it creates also the individual user, and
gives ability to the individual to exist and co-exist with other individuals. Objects can
enter into systems according to their characteristics (for example: phonemes in
phonology), or according to their distributive properties (as morphemes in morphology
and syntax); these objects then form structures in which classified subjects change the
status and character of the fact of its structuring dictated by integrity. Thus, the word is
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more, than sequence of phonemes, the sentence - more than the sequence of morphemes
and words connected together, and the text is more than sequence of sentences. On the
basis of the above-stated it is possible to draw a conclusion, that the discourse combines
social structures which it creates as system which generate it, and It proves to be true
definition of the discourse given by S.I. Vinogradov - «the complete communicative
event consisting in interaction of participants of communications by means of verbal
texts and-or other sign complexes in a certain situation and defined socio-cultural
conditions of dialogue» [7, 139]. Accordingly, the formula to the given definition will
be following:
Discourse = text + interactivity + a situational context + a cultural context.
However M. Fuko's formula to which scientists often addressed, includes two
components:
Discourse = «already-told» + «never-told» [8, 27], other authors, for example,
D. Biber, on the contrary allocate set of situational variations making of the following
parametres in a discourse [9, 156]:
1) communicative characteristics of participants;
2) relations between the addressee and the receiver;
3) a situation;
4) the channel;
5) relations of participants to the text;
6) installations, intentions and the purposes;
7) a theme.
There is a number of definitions of the term «discourse», however in this paper
we take the concept of a discourse as «the speech shipped into life», according to N.D.
Arutjunova's classical definition [10, 17], and we consider it in close interaction with
social factors.
From here the conclusion arises, important for understanding of the discourseanalysis: it is impossible to approach to language as to abstract system as the discourse
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is both a knowledge source, and result. It becomes obvious, that subject of a discourseanalysis is very wide - «language in its use» for J. Brown and J. Iul, «statement» for D.
Shiffrin, «verbal communications» for J. Renkem. In the widest sense, we agree with
M.L. Makarova's point of view: the discourse analysis is an integrated sphere of
studying of language dialogue from the point of view of its form and function [11, 17].
Many analysts are at a loss to answer, what makes a discourse-analysis a discipline.
Dividing B. Jonestones's sight, it is possible to assert, that «a discourse-analysis is a
method of research which is used by many scientists for the various academic and not
academic purposes, various disciplines, for the purpose of a finding of the answer to
various questions: How the arrangement of information structures in sentences can
signal about value? How speakers specify semantic intentions and how listeners
interpret this received information and what cognitive abilities underlie on the basic of
human use of symbols?» [12, 5].
In the area of pragmatists the discourse-analysis considers «body» of
communications and helps to describe main principles of interpretation and ways of use
of statements for achievement of the communicative purposes. Moreover, it is
important to define the social and gender stratification. In what degree the gender aspect
influences creation of this or that type of a discourse? According to P.B. Parshin [13,
89], specificity of the social agent is essential to define the type of the discourse;
therefore the given aspect should be included in a discourse-analysis. Depending on the
agent the discourse can be: feministic, pre-election, Soviet, racist, presidential etc.
Researches within the frame of a discourse and a gender are so various, that there is no
uniform approach which would be named as «the feministic discourse-analysis».
Actually, not all approaches are considered feministic in the given direction, but all of
them are considered in four different, but interconnected research traditions:
Anthropological (cultural aspect), sociological (social interaction), critical (text), and
the most modern anthropological (historical trajectories of a discourse). Thus, we come
to the fact that the discourse is a social, cultural and political phenomenon and the
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discourse theory is not simply reflection of a society, culture and the power, but it is
also perennial source of the additional information. The present research the critical
discourse-analysis which representatives are N. Ferklou, Т. van Dake, R. Vodak is
important. The given approach considers language as means for manufacture and power
and ideology reproduction. The given statement is also proved in sociology, thus,
giving the basis to consider, that the gender discourse is considered as the form of
«symbolical violence» [14, 208] which is understood as a kind of the symbolical
struggle which purpose is the symbolical power and the symbolical capital. Hence, it is
possible to consider any discourse political. It is possible to agree with it partially as
pragmalinguistic principle of the analysis takes place in researches of discourse of such
scientists as J. Searle, J. Austin, and P. Grace. From the given point of view, the
discourse is a world of thought designed by the author in which it immerses the
interpreter. The skilled author, especially the politician, anticipates such speech
suggestion by preparatory processing of another's consciousness so that the new
relation to a subject harmonized with the settled representations - realized or not
realized. Indistinct semantics of language promotes flexible introduction in another's
consciousness: the new sight is modified (it is an original mimicry) under the influence
of system of the settled opinions of the interpreter, and at the same time it changes this
system» [15, 3-18]. The aforesaid it follows, that aspects of public relations are
expressed and created in a discourse by the power, or by the cooperation. According to
D. Tannen, the power deals there where dissymmetric relations in human relations take
place, and cooperation, on the contrary, - symmetric [16, 77]. Men, protecting power
territory, apply various receptions to support of manufacture of imperious relations, e.g.
strategy on fall. The woman in the given context is considered as basic «consumer»,
and the man - «manufacturer» of a discourse. The given context is mainly presented by
such version of a discourse, as institutional. The formula of the given discourse is
presented E.I. Shejgal [7, 16]:
Discourse =sublanguage + the text + a context
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The following understanding of a discourse is offered to the researchers:
Communications system = real + the potential.
«In potential measurement the discourse represents the semiotics space including
verbal and nonverbal signs, and also representations about typical models of speech
behavior and a set of speech actions and genres necessary for the given type of
communications», - writes E.I. Shejgal [7, 16]. Social group carries out additional
function of differentiation to a gender sign: accordingly, it dictates presence of a label
for performance of the set social role; thus, specificity of style of gender communicative
behavior of women and men is traced. The mentality of society in turn sets variability
of representations on such concepts, as «feminine» and «masculine», i.e. gender model
which is necessary for performance by the individual of social, gender roles and norms
in a society during the certain historical period. There is a certain related
communication with ritual, but change of a paradigm of values involves change in
behavior of society. Hence, on the basis of all resulted above formulas it is possible to
present following components of a discourse accounting social and gender aspect:
1) the agent;
2) intention;
3) a sublanguage (social aspect);
4) a sublanguage (gender aspect);
5) the situational text;
6) interactivity;
7) a cultural context. Of results of researches of the given phenomenon shows,
that the foreshortening of research of a discourse depends on those problems which face
to scientists. Leaning against J.S. Stepanova, V.Z. Demjankova and E.I. Shejgal's
concepts, we come to discourse definition as «language in language», but presented in
the form of a special social reality, i.e. the discourse is considered in close interaction
with social factors. It exists, mainly, in texts, which have a special grammar, a special
lexicon, special rules of the use and syntax, special semantics - finally - the special
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world. Conceptually its creation is influenced by factors of situational-social, gender
and cultural plan during interaction of participants in semiotics space. The discourse is
created in a certain situation of dialogue where participants possess social roles,
installations, intentions.
1.2 Linguistic Approaches to Gender in Literary Texts
In regard to the question of gender and discourse, we need to identify the
discourses around the nature of males in our society, and look for the power effects, or
implications, of these discourses - for it is these discourses that will determine the social
and political responses to men’s and boys’ health needs. Discourses about what
constitutes «woman» and «man» have appeared over time. In European cultures, the
Victorian era’s dominant discourse on women saw them as weak creatures, subject to
control by their emotions and reproductive biology. The power effects of this discourse
led to social practices, and even legislation, concerning the appropriate occupations and
roles of women, and it limited their opportunities to participate in the public sphere of
social life. Men, on the other hand, were in this period seen as unable to provide the
nurturing required by children, rather as the disciplinarians and provider’s of their
family’s material needs. Thus, the power effects of this gender discourse on men
resulted in their being largely excluded from the sphere of private life. Regarding men
and women still differ today. This was exemplified in a presentation by an earlier
speaker, who noted that young women smoke to control body weight so as to attain a
socially defined «attractive» body shape. It was claimed that young men smoke because
they see it as a «manly» thing to do. If we deconstruct this statement, we can see that
there is an underlying discourse - women are perceived as being subject to outside
influences (to their detriment) - that they lack «agency», the power to initiate actions in
their own lives - they are largely victims of external forces. Men, however, are seen as
having power to choose, as being agents for their own actions, so that men smoke to
create a persona. The result (power effects) of this type of discourse, which is common
in many areas of men’s and women’s health, is that we attempt to change environments
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for women (by reducing the emphasis on thin bodies), but tell men to change themselves
(by stopping smoking). We locate women’s health challenges outside of themselves,
but the challenges to men’s health we see as arising within the men themselves (or in
the abstracted men of «masculinities»). Main way of social communications and
manipulation is the language showing various situations of social communications
which participants in the conditions of direct dialogue can be at least two real partners
and in the conditions of text communications - two potential partners. The language
signs making semiotics space of the oral and written text represent social life under
different corners, including its political component. The political space of society is
designed by various political movements, parties, associations, groups which structure
includes the politicians differing not only on political views, on level of linguacultural
competence, on popularity among members of the given society, but also under such
biological factor (feminine, masculine) which deserve special research. The modern
gender theory does not try to challenge distinction between women and men, believing,
that the fact of distinctions is not so important, as their socio-cultural estimation and
interpretation, and also construction of imperious system on the basis of these
distinctions. Second wave of feminist movement in the West in the end of 60s - the
beginnings-70s of the XX century has given a push to development of researches which
are called now as gender. The steady designation of the whole area of modern
interdisciplinary researches by the term «gender» follows tradition of the Englishspeaking research literature: «gender» means «a social sex» unlike a «biological» sex».
‘Gender’ is one of the central and fundamental concepts of a modern society which
requires understanding. T.Lauretis has made digression to dictionaries of the various
countries on values of a category «gender» and in the American dictionary of a heritage
of English language [17, 18]: the word «gender» is defined, first of all, as the
classification term, and also as the morphological characteristic («grammatical
gender»). Other meaning of the word gender in this dictionary is «sex classification; a
sex». It is interesting, that English language (where is not presented neither masculine’s,
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nor a feminine gender) has accepted gender as a category referring to a sex. In the same
American dictionary it is possible to find out one more gender definition is
representation. The word has no adequate translation in Russian, and its writing and a
pronunciation is copied from English language. In I.R. Galperin's big English-Russian
dictionary it is possible to see, that gender has two meanings. The first is a grammatical
gender and the second is a sex, as a playful designation [18, 668]. Gender definition
(gender) as socio-cultural floor sex is not full for an explanation, and it is proved by a
definition given in the glossary of the Moscow Institute of gender researches: «The
gender is difficult socio-cultural construct: distinctions in roles, behavior, mental and
emotional characteristics between man's and female, (designed) by a society. The
gender is designed through certain system of socialization, a division of labor and the
cultural norms accepted in a society, a role and stereotypes» [19]. The term «gender»
is understood as the representation of relations showing an attachment to a class, group,
a category (that corresponds to one of meanings of the word «род» - «gender» in
Russian). Thus, the gender attributes or assigns to any object or the individual a position
in a class, and, hence, and a position concerning others, already made classes. After
A.V. Kirilina, we consider concept «a gender» and «sex» as synonyms and we
understand under these concepts «socio-cultural and conventional phenomena and
discursive factors of variable intensity, instead of biological phenomena» [20, 12].the
western general scientific approaches to this category, O.A. Voronina defines seven
approaches. So, the gender can be considered as a socially-demographic category; a
social design; subjectivity; ideological construct; a network; technology and a cultural
metaphor [21, 13 - 95].gender researches exists two conceptual approaches: the theory
of socio-cultural determinism (accidentalism) and the biodeterminism theory
(existentialism). Supporters of the socio-biological concept of gender point out
distinctions in women and men’s behavior, in particular communicative; using psycho
physiological distinctions connect them with distinction in speech processes and
designate gender distinctions by sexual distinctions. Biodeterminists challenge opinion,
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that distinctions between representatives of two gender groups exist both in
physiological, and in the social plan. In frameworks of sociodetermenistic directions,
according to E.A. Kartusina, it is especially underlined, that «representations about
«masculinity» and «feminist», along with communicative behavior, are designed,
instead of simply reflected in language as language is represented in the way of
formation of consciousness» [22, 26]. А.В. Kirilina scientifically proved two
approaches as two periods of development of the gender researches, one of which has
come in the stead of another: «…The gender approach is based on a number of
methodological principles, major of which - sex relativisation, that is refusal of a
biodeterminism and gender interpretation as socially and cultural designed
phenomenon. The recognition of cultural conditionality of a sex, its institutional and
ritualized character conducts to the recognition of its conventionality, unequally shown
as in various cultural and language communities, so at various stages of their
development. All it allows to approach to «masculinity» and «feminity» phenomena
not as to an invariable natural reality, and as to dynamic, changeable products of
development of the human society, giving in to a social manipulation and modeling and
subject to the strongest influence of cultural tradition» [23, 134-135]. However, in our
opinion, socio-deterministic and biodetermenistic approaches oppose today, the
relation between concepts «gender» and «sex» is differentiated in various formulations
of the concept «gender». O.V. Ryabov explains the relation of concepts «sex» and
«gender» as whole and a part: «the sex consists of a biological sex and socio-cultural
sex in which, in turn, should be distinguished a social and cultural-symbolical
component. Thus «the sex» and «a gender» correspond among themselves not as a sort
and a kind, but as whole and part» [24, 52]. In other treatment wider concept is the
«gender» uniting a biological and social sex: «Gender» is some kind of an
interdisciplinary intrigue in which basis set of sciences about the person are weaved,
about its not only biological, but also socially and cultural caused specificity, an intrigue
as sets of circumstances, events and actions in which center there is a person, the
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personality» [25, 9], in our opinion, Special attention demands gender definition as
important cognitive category used at interaction of people as in linguistics the concept
«gender» corresponds with designed in language and fixed in consciousness of its
carriers in the images, norms, traditions and style of behaviors, and also with set of
attributes which are attributed to men and women in defined socio-cultural community.
Interrelation of language and gender was focus of many researches which history breaks
up to two periods. For the first period prominent features were: 1) irregular character
of research; 2) «man's» language, and a deviation from norm - «female» was considered
as norm. The second stage is marked by the large-scale researches caused by growth of
interest to pragmatic aspect of linguistics, development of sociolinguistics and essential
changes in traditional distribution of man's and female roles in a society. Background
of gender researches in linguistics leaves the roots in antiquity and is connected with
occurrence of the symbolical-semantic concept of a gender category (genus),
considering it in a close connection with a direct reality: presence of people of a
different sex. The given symbolical-semantic hypothesis was supported by such
scientists as M. Gerder, J. Grimm, V. Humboldt, etc., that has predetermined its long
domination in the linguistic description. The symbolical-semantic hypothesis has not
found acknowledgement because of opening of languages in which the gender category
is absent. Nevertheless, in frameworks of criticism of the given hypothesis and gradual
replacement by its morphological and syntactic explanation of gender category
invariable there was a recognition of that the gender category itself is capable to affect
human perception of corresponding words and concepts. Theme of mutual relation of
language and gender was peripheral in linguistics, and regular researches in the given
area were not spent. Only in the beginning of last century the given problematic - the
language and floor theme - began to be put in the forefront for two reasons: first,
because of heightened interest to it of linguists with a world name (E. Sepir, F. Mautner,
O. Espersen) and, secondly, in the linguistic description the social plan considering
language in connection with a society and the person being in it began to be put forward.
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It occurrence of new directions in linguistics - sociolinguistics, the pragmatist,
psycholinguistics, the discourse and communications theory speaks. The end of the
60th - beginning of 70th of the XX century gender researches have received a powerful
impulse thanks to the New women's movement in the USA and Germany therefore in
linguistics there was the new direction named feministic linguistics (FL - the term has
been entered by L. Push) or feministic criticism of language. R. Lakoff's work
«Language and a place of the woman», proved anthropocentricity of language and
defectiveness of the image of the woman in the picture of the world reproduced in
language [26, 84].interrelation of language and gender was focus of many researches
which history breaks up to two periods. For the first period prominent features were: 1)
irregular character of research; 2) «man's» language, and a deviation from norm «female» was considered as norm. The second stage is marked by the large-scale
researches caused by growth of interest to pragmatic aspect of linguistics, development
of sociolinguistics and essential changes in traditional distribution of man's and female
roles in a society. Background of gender researches in linguistics leaves the roots in
antiquity and is connected with occurrence of the symbolic-semantic concept of a
category of a sort (genus), considering it in a close connection with a direct reality:
presence of people of a different floor. The given symbolic-semantic hypothesis was
supported by such scientists as M. Gerder, J. Grimm, V. Humboldt, etc., that has
predetermined its long domination in the linguistic description. The Cimvolikosemantic hypothesis has not found acknowledgement because of opening of languages
in which the sort category is absent. Nevertheless, in frameworks of criticism of the
given hypothesis and gradual replacement by its morphological and syntactic
explanation of a category of a sort invariable there was a recognition of that the sort
category itself is capable to affect human perception of corresponding words and
concepts. Theme of mutual relation of language and gender was peripheral in
linguistics, and regular researches in the given area were not made. Only in the
beginning of last century the given problematic - the language and sex theme - began
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to be put in the forefront for two reasons: first, because of heightened interest to it of
world-known linguists (E. Sepir, F. Mautner, O. Espersen) and, secondly, the social
plan considering language in connection with a society and the person in it began to be
put forward in the linguistic description. It explains the occurrence of new directions in
linguistics - sociolinguistics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, the discourse and
communications theory.
The feministic linguistics has two currents: the first concerns research of
language for the purpose of revealing asymmetries in its system, directed against
women. These asymmetries have received the name of language sexism. It is a question
of the patriarchal stereotypes fixed in language and imposing to its carriers a certain
picture of the world in which the supporting role is taken away to women and negative
qualities are attributed basically. Researches of language and sex asymmetries are based
on Sepir-Uorf’s hypothesis: language not only a society product, but also means of
formation of thinking and mentality. It allows representatives of feministic linguistics
to assert that all languages functioning in patriarchal and post patriarchal cultures are
man's languages and are under construction on the basis of a man's picture of the world.
With the appearance of S. Tremel-Pletts's works «Linguistik and Frauensprache» and
also L. Push’s work «Das Deutsche als Mannersprache» the feministic linguistics has
received great distribution in the USA and Germany. As M. Dmitrieva considers,
supporters of language reform pursued following aims: 1) to make women more
appreciable in language; 2) to remove gender relevance; 3) to make gender presence at
language less obvious [27, 258].
The second direction investigates features of communications in the unisex and
mixed groups (D. Cameron, J. Coates). These researches concern communicativelypragmatic function of language. Studying of speech behavior within the limits of the
given direction has allowed revealing and to describe man's and female strategy of
speech behavior in details. It is possible to carry its strongly pronounced polemic
character, attraction to the linguistic description of results of all spectrum of sciences
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about the person (psychology, sociology, ethnography, anthropology, history), and also
a number of successful attempts to affect the language policy to specificity of feministic
criticism of language [28, 234]. 90s gender researches became extended enough.
Existence of special man's and female languages (gender-linguistics) with constant
signs which in due time has described Robin Lakoff. Linguists have come to necessity
to study speech of women and men in a concrete context. According to A.V. Kirilina,
the period of formation of primary development of a linguistic component domestic
genderlogy and gender researches is at the end stage. [23, 14]. The given opinion is
considered correct only partly as their feature, according to D. Tannen, consists that
they did not proceed from feministic ideology as it has occurred in the USA and the
Western Europe, and had no sexist orientation in researches. And the parity of a
grammatical gender and an extra linguistic category «sex» was studied within the limits
of other disciplines - morphology, grammar, lexicology - long before formation of the
feministic concept of language and formation of the term «gender» in the West [29,
358]. O.L. Kamenskaya, considering features of works of gender researches in
linguistics, it is offered to differentiate them on two groups. So, the first direction - the
gender linguistics - investigates language and speech behavior with application of
gender methods, and object of the second direction - linguistic genderology - is studying
of a category of a gender with application of linguistic toolkit [30, 13-19]. Linguistic
researches of a gender interdependent and complementary, nevertheless, at the detailed
analysis it is possible to allocate six directions of development linguistic gender logy
in modern linguistics:
1) Socio-linguistic gender researches;
2) Feministic linguistics;
3) Actually gender researches studying language behavior of both sexes;
4) Masculinity research (the youngest direction which has arisen in the end of 20
century);
5) Psycholinguistic researches (within the limits of this direction works are spent
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to areas of neorolinguistics, studying speeches ontogenesis, here belongs both
biodetermenistic direction investigating cognitive features and distinctions between
men and women and their display in speech);
6) cross-cultural, linguo-cultural researches, including a hypothesis of gender
subcultures., in brief it is possible to distribute them in three directions: socio - and
psycholinguistic, linguo-cultural, communicative-discursive [31, 78-94]. At studying
of a problem of mutual relation of language and a gender and presence of certain
features in man's and female verbal behavior at present it is possible to allocate three
basic approaches:
1) purely gender approach is reduced in treatment of exclusively social nature of
language of women and men and aimed at revealing of those language distinctions
which it is possible to explain features of redistribution of the power in a society, thus
language is defined as certain functional derivative of the basic language, used when
partners in speech are at different steps of social hierarchy. A theoretical basis of such
approach is M. Fuko's concepts and the sociological concept of genders have made by
E. Goffman.
2) the second - socio-psycho-linguistic approach - reduces the second «female»
and «man's» language to features of language behavior of the woman and the man, for
it statistics make a skeleton for construction of linguistic theories;
3) the third approach does an emphasis on cognitive aspect of these distinctions.
For it appears the main thing not only definition of rate of distinctions and operating by
its indicators, but also an establishment of that difficultly gives in to an explanation [31,
82]., interdisciplinary character as confirms A.V. Kirillina, allocates two directions of
researches: 1) a gender - as not linguistic object; 2) a gender - as the object of the
linguistic description, is thus allocated metagender and gender level. The gender enters
into sphere of researches as a cultural phenomenon, its reflection in language and
designing in communicative interaction of individuals. All it allows to involve in
research a wide range of linguistic questions - semantics, to the pragmatics,
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liguoculturology, cognitive linguistics, the discourse analysis etc. [23, 12].
Representation of the majority of linguists on gender, now at studying of a problem of
mutual relation of language and a gender and presence of certain features in female and
man's verbal, allocate following directions of gender researches:
Revealing of certain distinctions of language levels: phonetics, morphology,
semantics and syntax, and also distinctions in the field of verbal stereotypes in
perception of women and men;
- Revealing of semantic distinctions which speak features of redistribution of
social functions in a society - the approach exclusively from the gender positions,
connected with the social nature of language of women and men;
- Construction of psycholinguistic theories in which «female» and «man's»
languages are reduced to features of language behavior of women and men;
Cognitive explanation of the revealed indicators. In this case important it appears
not only definition of rate of divergences, but also an establishment of communication
with various aspects of a picture of the world. Each country studying of communication
of language and a sex has the features, in linguistics the great value takes place
developments of this or that concept as history of concepts, and systems of their
oppositions to other concepts depend on this or that cultural tradition. Of gender
researches in modern linguistics of the post-Soviet territory is characterized by a
number of factors [27, 234-242]:
Features of language in connection with a sex of its carriers in the Soviet
linguistics are considered within the limits of traditional linguistic paradigms:
morphology, syntax, etc. the sex within the limits of a separate direction as it occurred
in the West, was not considered;
Formed today gender direction is characterized by undeveloped methodology
and some terminological ambiguity. Mainly, as to interpretation of concept «gender»;
In view of small quantity of works of own scientists it is necessary to lean against
works of foreign scientists.is necessary to notice, that it is possible to find conclusions
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in works of the American and German linguists in all directions of linguistic gender
researches; however it is required to consider the specificity necessary in connection
with ethno cultural distinctions., gender researches have no one expressed dominant.
Modern researchers-linguists consider, that in researches on gender linguistics recently
there was a turn to a discourse, and studying of interaction of language and a gender, in
certain degree, became synonymous to discourse and gender studying. Told at all does
not mean decrease in the importance for gender linguistics of such types of the analysis
as grammatical, phonologic, lexical etc. At the same time interdisciplinary research of
the phenomena discursive order has taken the central place in researches of interaction
of language and a gender [32, 36].Kazakhstan linguistics throughout the long period of
time the sex factor was considered in the linguistic description along with other
pragmatic categories of the description. The analysis of imperious relations and a
feministic discourse in linguistics were absent for the reasons both political, and social
character. The analysis of available works allows defining a number of lines on which
intensive research work is conducted. First of all it psycho-and socio-linguistic
researches such as B.H. Hasanov, M.Z. Arenova, and also studying of names of persons
female and male, categories of a sort and the problems connected with it reference by
R.S. Amrenova, T.M. Abdrahmanova., in the general plan gender research in linguistics
concerns two groups of problems:
Language and reflection in it of a sex. The purpose of such approach consists in
the description and an explanation of how presence of people of a different floor is
demonstrated in language (are investigated first of all nominative system, a lexicon,
syntax, a sort category, etc.), what estimations are attributed to men and women and in
what semantic areas they are most considerably expressed;
- Speech and, as a whole, communicative behavior of men and women where
typical strategy and tactics are allocated gender specific choice of units of a lexicon,
ways of achievement of success in communications, preferences in a choice of lexicon,
syntactic designs etc.
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Undoubtedly, at studying of communicative behavior it is necessary to consider
the gender factor as public institutes and the culture, influencing gender socialization,
dictate certain stereotypes of behavior, but thus also it is necessary to consider the
status, age, an accessory to social group. Given review of history of formation of
researches in gender study gives the basis to assert, that it is necessary to consider extra
linguistic and introlinguistic factors of influence of a gender on discourse formation, to
consider ethno cultural specificity that is very important for intercultural
communications during a globalization epoch. So, we come to conclusion, that now
researches in gender study consider a gender not only as social construct, and also as
institutional, ritualized, socio-cultural phenomenon and its reflection in language, but
also designing in communicative interaction of individuals that is reflected in prompt
development of new branch in modern linguistics - linguistic gender study.
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1.3 Belles-letters style as one of the functional styles of literary standard of
the English language
To J. Mistrik stylistics can be defined as the study of choice and the types of use
of linguistic, extra-linguistic and aesthetic mean, as well as particular techniques used
in communication. Considering the generally accepted differentiation between
linguistic and literary stylistics, J. Mistrik suggests that we carefully distinguish
between the language style, belles-lettres and literary style (ibid., p. 30):
The language style is a way of speech and/or a kind of utterance which is formed
by means of conscious and intentional selection, systematic patterning and
implementation of linguistic and extra-linguistic means with respect to the topic,
situation, function, author's intention and content of an utterance.
The Belles-Letters style (artistic, aesthetic) is one of the language styles which
fulfils, in addition to its general informative function, a specific aesthetic function.
The Literary Style is the style of literary works implemented in all components
of a literary work, i.e. on the level of language, ideas, plot, etc. All these components
are subordinated to aesthetic norms. (Thus Literary style is an extra-linguistic category
while the language and belles-letters styles are language categories.) We can recognize
the style of a literary school, group or generation and also an individual style of an
author (i.e. idiolect). This means that on the one hand we can name the so called
individual styles and on the other the inter-individual (functional) styles.
The object of lingo-stylistics is the study of the nature, functions and structures
of stylistic devices and expressive means on the оnе hand, and the study of the
functional styles, on the other. А functional style of language is а system of interrelated
language means which serves а definite aim in communication. А functional style is
thus to be regarded as the product of а certain concrete task set by the sender of the
message. Functional styles appear mainly in the literary standard of а language.
The literary standard of the English language, like that of any other developed
language, is not as homogeneous as it may seem. In fact the Standard English literary
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language in the course of its development has fallen into several subsystems each of
which has acquired its own peculiarities which are typical of the given functional style.
The peculiar choice of language means is primarily predetermined by the aim of the
communication. One set of language media stands in opposition to other sets of
language media with other aims, and these other sets have other choices and
arrangements of language means.
What we here call functional styles are also called registers or discourses. The
English literary standard we distinguish the following major functional styles:
1) The language of belles-Letters.
2) The language of publicist literature.
3) The language of newspapers.
4) The language of scientific prose.
5) The language of official documents.
Functional style may be characterized by а number of distinctive features. Each
functional style is subdivided into а number of sub styles. These represent varieties of
the abstract invariant. Each variety has basic features common to all the varieties of the
given functional style and peculiar features typical of this variety alone.
The belles-lettres functional style has the following sub styles:
а) the language style of poetry;) the language style of emotive prose;
с) the language style of drama.
The publicist functional style comprises the following sub styles:
а) the language style of oratory;) the language style of essays;
с) the language style of feature articles in newspapers and journals.
The newspaper functional style falls into
а) the language style of brief news items and communiques;) the language style
of newspaper headings;
с) the language style of notices and advertisements.
The scientific prose functional style also has three divisions:
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а) the language style of humanitarian sciences;
Ь) the language style of «exact» sciences;
с) the language style of popular scientific prose.
The official document functional style can be divided into four varieties:
а) the language style of diplomatic documents;
b) the language style of business documents;
с) the language style of legal documents;) the language style of military
documents. Classification presented here is by no means arbitrary. This classification
is not proof against criticism. Other schemes may possibly be elaborated and
highlighted by different approaches to the problem of functional styles. Thus, for
example, some linguists consider that newspaper articles (including feature articles)
should be classed under the functional style of newspaper language, not under the
language of publicist literature. Others insist on including the language of everyday-life
discourse into the system of functional styles. Budagov singles out only two main
functional styles: the language of science and that of emotive literature. [36,
79]Analysing concrete texts, we discover that the boundaries between functional styles
sometimes become less and less discernible. Thus, for instance, the signs of difference
are sometimes almost imperceptible, between poetry and emotive prose; between
newspaper functional style and publicist functional style; between а popular scientific
article and а scientific treatise; between an essay and а scientific article.
The language style of poetry emotive prose drama
Of all the functional styles of language, the most difficult to define is the belleslettres style. Franz Kafka defines this style as «organized violence done on ordinary
speech». Works create their own world. Each is a unique entity. Just as a painter uses
paint to create a new image, a writer uses words to create a text. An important thing to
recognize about literary works is just how carefully and consciously they are crafted.
Words are the raw material of literature and literary writers stretch them to their limits.
[37, 94]. Crystal said that the literary language is the art in making the unnatural appear
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natural. For example, a playwright or novelist may write a dialogue which is naturalistic
- i.e. it employs colloquialism, dialect words and so on - but this dialogue is very
different from spontaneous speech. It will contain no non-fluency features; it will
probably be less repetitious and more dramatic than ordinary speech. [38, 183]forms of
literature make no attempt to appear natural - in fact they deliberately surprise the
readers’ expectations. They might use familiar words in unfamiliar ways as e. e.
cummings does, or they might coin new words as Gerald Hopkins does. Perhaps we
expect poets to use deviant language, but prose writers like James Joyce do it too. The
belles-lettres style is a generic term for three sub styles in which the main principles
and the most general properties of the style are materialized. Three sub styles are:
1. the language of poetry
2. emotive prose
3. the language of the drama
Each of these sub styles has certain common features. First of all the common
function comes which may be called «aesthetical-cognitive». This is a double function
which aims at the cognitive process and, at the same time, calls for a feeling of pleasure.
This pleasure is caused not only by admiration of the selected language means and their
peculiar arrangement but also by the fact that the reader is led to form his own
conclusions. So the purpose of the belles-lettres style is to suggest a possible
interpretation of the phenomena of life by forcing the reader to see the view point of
the writer. Nothing gives more pleasure and satisfaction than realizing that one has the
ability to penetrate into the hidden tissue of events, phenomena and human activity and
to perceive the relation between various seemingly unconnected facts brought together
by the creative mind of the writer. All this it follows, that the belles-lettres style must
select a system of language means which will secure the effect sought. The belles-lettres
style rests on certain indispensable linguistic features which are:
1) genuine, not trite, imagery, achieved by purely linguistic device
2) the use of words in contextual and very often in more that one dictionary
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meaning
3) a vocabulary which will reflect to a greater or lesser degree the authorґs
personal evaluation of things or phenomena
4) a peculiar individual selection of vocabulary and syntax, a kind of lexical and
syntactical idiosyncrasy
5) introduction of the typical features of colloquial language.belles-lettres style
is individual in essence. Individuality in selecting language means and stylistic devices
is one of its most distinctive properties.
So, the first sub style we shall consider is verse. Its first differentiating property
is its orderly form, which is based mainly on the rhythmic and phonetic arrangement of
the utterances. The rhythmic aspect calls for syntactical and semantic peculiarities
which also fall into a more or less strict orderly arrangement. Syntax and semantics
comply with the restrictions imposed by the rhythmic pattern, and the result is brevity
of expression, epigram-like utterances, and fresh unexpected imagery. Syntactically
this brevity is shown in elliptical and fragmentary sentences, in detached constructions,
in inversion, asyndeton and other syntactical peculiarities.second is the sub style of
emotive prose has the same common features as have been pointed out for the belleslettres style in general, but all these features are correlated differently in emotive prose.
The imagery is no as rich as it is in poetry, the percentage of words with contextual
meaning is not as high as in poetry, and the idiosyncrasy of the author is not so clearly
discernible. Form meter and rhyme, what most of all distinguishes emotive prose form
the poetic style is the combination of the literary variant of the language, both in words
and syntax, with the colloquial variant. It would perhaps be more exact to define this as
a combination of the spoken and written varieties of the language, inasmuch as there
are always two forms of communication present - monologue (the writer’s speech) and
dialogue (the speech of the characters).
It follows then that the colloquial language in the belles-lettres style is not a pure
and simple reproduction of what might be the natural speech of living people. It has
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undergone changes introduced by the writer. The colloquial speech has been made
«literature-like.» This means that only the most striking elements of what might have
been a conversation in life are made use of, and even these gave undergone some kind
of transformation. Emotive prose allows the use of elements from other styles as well.
Thus we find elements of the newspaper style in Sinclair Lewis’s «It Can’t Happen
Here», the official style in the business letters exchanged between two characters in
Galsworthy’s novel «The Man of Property», the style of scientific prose in Cronin’s
«Citadel» where medical language is used. All these styles under the influence of
emotive prose undergo a kind of transformation. Passages written in other styles may
be viewed only as interpolation and not as constituents of the style. Present day emotive
prose is to a large extent characterized by the breaking-up of traditional syntactical
designs of the preceding periods. Not only detached construction, but also
fragmentation of syntactical models, peculiar, unexpected ways of combining
sentences, especially the gap-sentence link and other modern syntactical patterns, are
freely introduced into present-day emotive prose. [39, 387]Third is the language of the
drama. The stylization of colloquial language is one of the features of plays which at
different stages in the history of English drama has manifested itself in different ways
revealing, on the one hand, the general trends of the literary language and, on the other,
the personal idiosyncrasies of the writer. Thus the language of plays is a stylized type
of the spoken variety of language. The analysis of the language texture of plays has
shown that the most characteristic feature here is to use the term of the theory of
information, redundancy of information caused by the necessity to amplify the
utterance. This is done for the sake of the audience. Language of plays is entirely
dialogue. The author’s speech is almost entirely excluded except for the playwright’s
remark and stage directions. The language of the characters is in no way the exact
reproduction of the norms of colloquial language, although the playwright seeks to
reproduce actual conversation as far as the norms of the written language will allow.
This variety of belles-lettres style has used the norms of the literary language of the
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given period. So 16th century drama is much different from 20th century drama. [40,
200]
So, resuming the theory on belles-lettres, let us put the question right here:
What is belles-lettres?
Well the answer is definitely to be:
Literature written for its own sake, not purely informative or factual. «Works of
the imagination.» If the work is not meant chiefly to inform, but rather to please the
aesthetic sense, it’s probably belles-lettres. It’s synonym is literary works. What forms
does it take? Chiefly three: fiction (novels and short stories), poetry, and drama.
Occasionally prose essays of a very speculative or general nature can be considered
belles-lettres. Also refer tales to the three mentioned forms of belles-letters and the
reasons are that tales are:

short stories - within each tale there is, though fairy or mystic or magic, a
story with all its characteristics (we are not to specify ‘story’ characteristics in our paper
as it is not the essence of our paper);

any tale can contain piece of poetry (there are plenty of tales we know with
verses, poems);

a tale can be dramatic by content too.

At least nowadays all the tales are finally recorded, digitized and available
in any form a reader wishes. Arguments are the main pushers for us to proceed our
research with the analyses of the tales in the forthcoming part of the paper.
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