تحليل الخطاب النقدي في الاساءة للنساء في امثال اميركية وبريطانية مختارة == A Critical Discourse Analysis of Women’s Degradation in Selected American and British Proverbs
Author name:
علي شمال كزار
Supervisor name:
بشرى نعمة راشد
General topic:
Foreign Languages
Specific topic:
English - Language
Degree:
Master
University:
University of Baghdad - Ibn Rushd College Of Education For Human Sciences - Department Of English Language
Language:
English
University location:
Baghdad
Key words:
- Text Linguistics
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Discourse Analysis
- proverbs
Abstract:
This study sets out to examine women’s degradation in terms of gender inequality in American and British proverbs. The connection between gender relations, language, and the culture of the American and the British community is the aim of this study. The ideology is the reason why this study has set out to investigate women’s degradation in English proverbs; by analyzing English women's proverbial discourse. Additionally, another vital reason is the lack of conducting a critical discourse analysis in the field of proverbs related to women. Moreover, in recent years, feminist critical discourse analysis tries to challenge and change the way women are degraded and subordinated across cultures in general and in the American and British cultures in particular. These negative stereotypes are considered as negative prejudices with regard to ambivalent sexism. Women’s inferiority can be seen in the English proverbs that see women as a burden to the man’s responsibilities in life. These ideas and meanings are seen as social practices which are extremely tied to the social and cultural context in which the type of discourse may occur. Therefore, this study aims at identifying women’s degradation in American and British proverbs by using a thematic classification of the proverbs relating to women. Furthermore, this study hypothesizes that English proverbs present women as a controlled group because of men’s dominance over them, which is highly reflected in all themes of the proverbs. Forty proverbs have been selected from multiple printed texts to be the data of the study: Twenty proverbs are selected for each culture. A mixed-method research is utilized to reach the best understanding of the results of the study. This study includes an eclectic model: Kerschen’s (1998) English women’s proverbial discourse, Fairclough’s (1995) power and dominance, Lazar’s (2014) FCDA, and Glick and Fisk’s (1996) ambivalent sexism. The overall results of the study show that women receive misogynistic treatment in both cultures. Text and discourse practice are equal since they are concerned with the text and context of every proverb. Gender as ideological structure is shown as the higher item because both cultures degrade women due to the natural distribution of social roles between males and females. Competitive gender differentiation is the higher component in ambivalent sexism that shows women as not full competent as men, which justifies males’ structural control over women. Finally, women are negatively perceived in the entire discourse of the data, though critical discourse analysis and feminist movement have offered women an emancipatory perspective.
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