SELF-PRESENTATION AND IMAGE OF THE OPPONENT IN DISCUSSION ABOUT GENDER CORRECTNESS IN GERMAN MEDIADISCOURSE
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https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu33.2024.115Abstract
The goal of the study is to define lexical means that the participants of the discussion about gender correctness in the German media use to make the image of the opponents and their own image. The problem of the usage of gender correct forms is considered from the communicative point of view. In the focus of attention there are communicants and their typical ideas about themselves and the opponents that they are guided by persisting of their positions and criticizing of another meaning. The materials are borrowed from German online-media for the period from 2018 to 2023. As a theoretical basis serve papers about gender linguistics, language criticism and discourse analysis. With the help of the method of context analysis and discourse analysis there were considered social belonging of the participants of the discussion, analyzed keywords and figurative means that they use to criticize their opponents and to describe themselves. As a result there was defined the belonging of the disputing parties to the same social and professional groups. The supporters of gender correctness underline personal qualities of themselves and their opponents; they contrast their positive features like youth, tolerance and progressivity to the negative features of their opponents like old age, intolerance and backwardness. The figurative means that they use have a standard character. The opponents of using gender correct forms apply generalized characteristics. They use emotional colored expressions and figurative means to describe the actions of their opponents. The study contributes to developing of communicative theory and scientific language criticism.
Keywords:
gender correctness, gender linguistics, language criticism, media linguistics, discourse analysis, German language
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