DVA DISKURSA
TWO DISCOURSES

Summary/Abstract: An excerpt from the study “Dialogue, a prerequisite for survival”, in which the social aspect of the issue of so-called “men’s” and “women’s” writings in literature or, in this study, of men’s and women’s dialogue or discourse, is considered in the context of modern approaches to the study of literature. By reference to the characterization of “men’s” discourse by post-modern criticism as more generalized than that of women, as capable – unlike that of women, “which is invariably aimed at someone and concerns someone” – of being “addressed to no one at all” from a strictly communicational perspective, the conclusion is drawn that from the communicational point of view “male discourse more closely resembles a monologue, while that of women is effected in direct or mediated dialogue”. The cultural consequences of these communicational differences are analyzed in this paper from the point of view of culture sensu latu as well as from the narrower perspective of theatre and drama.

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