Gender and American Proverbial Discourse
A Feminist Stylistic Analysis of Women¿s Image
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Language in general and proverbs in particular are considered to be the most revealing archive of social life. A study of proverbs can contribute to our understanding of the contemporary culture and the past of human society since language is inextricably embedded in the network of socio-cultural relations. It is maintained that proverbs as a folkloric genre represent discourses of patriarchal ideology. They provide some evidence of voices from below, i.e., the world-view of the dominated group. Woman proverbial discourses are an excellent yardstick for finding out the extent to which people c...
Language in general and proverbs in particular are considered to be the most revealing archive of social life. A study of proverbs can contribute to our understanding of the contemporary culture and the past of human society since language is inextricably embedded in the network of socio-cultural relations. It is maintained that proverbs as a folkloric genre represent discourses of patriarchal ideology. They provide some evidence of voices from below, i.e., the world-view of the dominated group. Woman proverbial discourses are an excellent yardstick for finding out the extent to which people continue to accept sexist ideas about women. This book is a feminist stylistic analysis of the representation of woman in the American proverbial discourse. More specifically, It (i) examines the linguistic representations of women in the American folk proverbs; (ii) identifies the social roles and attributes assigned to women in the American folk proverbs; and (iii) finds out how masculine hegemony and gender inequality are linguistically represented in the American folk proverbs.
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