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Feminist
Stylistics
Feminist
Criticism
Feminist
Movement
FEMINISM
FEMINIST
STYLISTICS
FEMINISTS
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STYLISTICS
FEMINISTS
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FEMINIST
STYLISTICS
FEMINIST
STYLISTICS
FEMINIST
STYLISTICS
FEMINIST
argues STYLISTICS
that there is a male
hegemony in both
the treatment of women in society
and their
characterization in literary works.
seeks to formulate an authentic
counter-image
of women through their writings.
explores the ways in which literature
FEMINIST
STYLISTICS
In the process,
literary art is seen
essentially as
a medium for the foregrounding of
female
experience
and the destruction
of
Feminist Stylisticians
place less
male
emphasis on the
stereotypes
about
women.
artistic on the artistic function of
language than
on other aspects of language. The
beauty of
FEMINIST
STYLISTICS
FEMINIST
STYLISTICS
FEMINIST
STYLISTICS
Feminist stylistics achieves its
goals through close linguistic
scrutiny and the explication of
linguistic theory to set out the
rationale for feminist textual
analysis.
The GOAL
therefore of this
approach to stylistic study is the
EVOLUTION OF LINGUISTIC and
SOCIAL CHANGE.
CHANGING TRENDS IN
FEMINIST STYLISTICS
Early feminist stylisticians
emphasis was
placed on the similarities between
texts
produced by both men and women.
They now insist that there is a
In modern times, however, emphasis
womens writing, which is
has shifted.
fundamentally different in style
from mens writing.
THEMATICAL
LY
Male
Sentence
Has the element
of control
and choice
Clear and
rational
Female
Sentence
Aims for
admiration and
approval
Lacks authority
& rationality
Emotive
Assertive and
CHARACTERISTICS
Apologetic
authoritative
OF
MALE AND FEMALE SENTENCE
LEXICALLY
Feminist stylisticians repudiate
such genderlectal
suffixes as -man/-woman and ess in
expressions like
draughtsman/woman, air
-draughter(s)
(not
hostess and the cataphoric
use of
draughtsmen/women)
he to include
maleattendant(s)
and female. They instead
-flight
(not
advocate:
flight steward/ess)
CHARACTERISTICS
OF
-hotel attendant(s)
(not
MALE AND FEMALE SENTENCE
waiter/waitress)
LEXICALLY
Women are said to prefer such
devices of
hedging as really, however,
because, and so
more often than men.
GRAMATICALLY (SYNTACTIC
LEVEL)
(suppression; hypotaxis;
inequality) which is
exemplified by subordinate clauses
and complex
sentences, that of women employs
CHARACTERISTICS OF
co-ordination
(parataxis;
equality).
MALE AND
FEMALE SENTENCE
sentence with
its subordination and
hierarchizing is seen as
transparent, the female
sentence is described
as opaque on account of its
complexity.
CHARACTERISTICS OF
MALE AND FEMALE SENTENCE
SUMMARY
FEMINIST LINGUISTICS is a
systematic, empirical analysis of a
texts language, which brings to light
patterns or representation of issues of
sexism, political correctness, reader
positioning, agency, discourse,
Thus, feminist stylistics will
character and sentence analysis.
continue to interrogate the
linguistic basis for the struggle of
the emancipation of womanhood as
reflected in literary and non-literary
COGNITIV
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STYLISTIC
As Steen asks:
Should a cognitive approach to
language and style aim for a
relatively superficial
psycholinguistic account for the
initial stage of accessing and
integrating the words of the
utterances, or for a relatively
deep and more generally
cognitive account of some
As Simpson writes:
Stylisticians [in the 1990s]
began...exploring more
systematically the cognitive
structures that readers employ
when reading texts. In doing so,
they borrowed heavily from
developments in Cognitive
Linguistics and Artificial
Intelligence, and this new
emphasis in research method saw
the emergence of cognitive
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