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Женское молчание как бинарная оппозиция мужскому властному дискурсу
Women’s Silence as a Binary Opposition to the Men’s Authoritative Discourse

Author(s): T. L. Mikhajlova
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Ивановский государственный университет
Keywords: binary opposition; androcentrism; silence as text; authoritative discourse.

Summary/Abstract: The article contains the investigation of women’s subjectivity in the context of modern communicative studies through the analysis of nonverbal discourse. The author suggests to use the language of semiotics in the research of women’s silence as a marked form of women’s identity. The tools of semiotics are tested through the analysis of author’s poetry as a variant of ego-document.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 62-76
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian
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