A WORD-LEVEL ANALYSIS OF FEMINIST LANGUAGE IN MARILYN FRENCH’S DEBUT NOVEL “THE WOMEN’S ROOMâ€*
Abstract
- This research deals with a word-level analysis of feminist language used by an American feminist author Marilyn French in her debut novel ‘The Women’s Room’. The objectives of this research are to explore words with negative connotations for women together with specific types of sexist language use they belong to, and to find out which type of sexist language use is the most dominant in the novel. The investigation was conducted based on Mills’ (1995) feminist stylistic analysis at the level of the word, focusing the area of sexism and meaning. The findings showed that of all types of sexist language use, words with negative connotations for women occurred most in ‘Naming and Androcentrism’. The research proved the existence of sexism in the English language as some words used for women found in the novel have identifiable negative connotations and the sense of devaluation.
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Year
- 2020
Author
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Thida Soe
Subject
- English
Publisher
- Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS)