Κοινωνιογλωσσικές αναπαραστάσεις της κατασκευής του φύλου στον τηλεοπτικό λόγο : Η περίπτωση της σειράς Εργαζόμενη Γυναίκα
Part of : Γλωσσολογία ; Vol.23, 2015, pages 23-44
Issue:
Pages:
23-44
Abstract:
In this study we explore sociolinguistic representations of female gender construction in the popular Greek TV series Working Woman {Εργαζόμενη Γυναίκα). The analysis of three selected scenes, based on "the identities in interaction" model of Bucholtz & Hall (2005), suggests that working women are depicted as struggling to combine a professional with a family or a female identity. This incongruity between a public and a private identity, which is a dominant representation of women in media, is also expressed through the sociolinguistic resources upon which women are represented as drawing. Since these hegemonic gendered representations are contextualized as humorous, TV viewers could interpret them as cognitively and sociolinguistically incongruous, by being invited to laugh at the "working women" they watch. We suggest that sociolinguistics could enrich research on gender representations in TV and cinematic fiction, since the fluidity and complexity of the (fictional) construction of gender identities at talk can be better explored. Moreover, the study of gender indexicality can combine protoor stereo-typical "feminine" and "masculine" communicative practices of conversationalists (sociolinguistics of gender) with the categories of men and women constructed in interaction (Membership Categorization Analysis). The exploration of social categorizations of conversationalists can thus better explain the indexical value that "feminine" and "masculine" styles of talk acquire by participants themselves in a specific (fictional) context.
Subject:
Subject (LC):
Keywords:
αρσενικός και θηλυκός τρόπος ομιλίας, δεικτικότητα, έμφυλες αναπαραστάσεις, κατηγορία μέλους, τηλεόραση
References (1):
- Αρχάκης, Α. 2008. Διερευνώντας την κατασκευή ταυτότητας (φύλου) σε νεανικές συνομιλίες: Παρατηρήσεις και προεκτάσεις. Στο Ε. Λεονταρίδη & Κ. Σπανοπούλου (επιμ.) Πρακτικά Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου: Η Γλώσσα σε έναν Κόσμο που Αλλάζει. Αθήνα: Διδασκαλείο Ξένων Γλωσσών ΕΚΠΑ, 94-100.Archakis, Α., Lampropoulou, S., Tsakona, V. & Tsami, V. 2014. Linguistic varieties in style: Humorous representations in Greek mass culture texts. Discourse, Context and Media 3: 46-54.Androutsopoulos, J. 2012. Repertoires, characters and scenes: Sociolinguistic difference in Turkish-German comedy. Multilingua 31: 301-326.Attardo, S. 2001. Humorous Texts: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.Behm, J. 2009. The representation of gender-specific conversational behavior in informal talk: a pragmatic analysis of the American television series "Sex and the City". Universität Rostock. Available at: http://www.grin.com/en/e-book/145958 (retrieved on 1st September 2014).Bucholtz, M. 2001. The whiteness of nerds: Superstandard English and the markedness. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 11 (1), 84-100.Bucholtz, M. & Hall, K. 2005, Identity and interaction: A sociocultural linguistic approach. Discourse Studies 7, 585-614.Γεωργαλίδου, M. 2009. Η γλωσσική κατασκευή του κοινωνικού φύλου σε δραστηριότητες παιχνιδιού στον παιδικό λόγο. Στο Γ. Γιαννάκης, Μ. Μπαλτατζάνη, Γ. Ι. Ξυδόπουλος, και Τ. Τσαγγαλίδης (επιμ.) Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Greek Linguistics. Ioannina: University of Ioannina, 714-727.Cameron, D. 1998. "Is there any ketchup, Vera?" Gender, power and pragmatics. Discourse & Society 9, 437-455.Cameron, D. 2003. Gender and language ideologies. In J. Holmes & M. Meyerhoff (eds) The Handbook of Language and Gender. Oxford: Blackwell, 447-467.Coupland, Ν., 2001. Dialect stylization in radio talk. Language in Society 30, 345-375.Davies, D.M. 1990. Portrayals of women in prime-time network television: Some demographic characteristics. Sex Roles 23 (5/6), 325-332.Eckert, P. 2008. Variation and the indexical field. Journal of Sociolinguistics 12, 453-476.Eschholz, S., Bufkin, J., & Long, J. 2002. Symbolic reality bites: Women and racial/ethnic minorities in modern film. Sociological Spectrum 22 (3), 299-334.Freed, A.F. 1992. We understand perfectly: A critique of Tannen's view of cross-sex communication. In K. Hall, M. Bucholtz & B. Moonwomon (eds) Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Berkley, CA: Women and Language Group, 144-152.Georgalidou, M. 2009. Gender differences in the discourse of Greek children play-groups: The negotiation of control acts in single and mixed-gender interactions. Gender and Language 3 (2), 209-248.Gumperz, J.J. 1982. Discourse Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Holmes, J. & Meyerhoff, M. 2003. The Handbook of Language and Gender. Oxford: Blackwell.Kartalou, A. 2000. Gender: Professional and class identities in Miss Director and Modern Cinderella. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 18, 105-118.Λαμπροπούλου, Σ. 2014. Κοινωνικό φύλο: Μέθοδοι και προσεγγίσεις. Στο Μ. Γεωργαλίδου, Μ. Σηφιανού, & Β. Τσάκωνα (επιμ.) Ανάλυση λόγου: Θεωρία και εφαρμογές. Αθήνα: Νήσος, 399-440.Μακρή-Τσιλιπάκου, Μ. 2010. Η «γυναικεία γλώσσα» και η γλώσσα των γυναικών. Στο Β. Καντσά, Β. Μουτάφη, & Ε. Παπαταξιάρχης (επιμ.) Φύλο και κοινωνικές επιστήμες στη σύγχρονη Ελλάδα. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Αλεξάνδρεια, 119-146.Makri-Tsilipakou, Μ. 1994. Interruption revisited: Affiliative vs. disaffiliative intervention. Journal of Pragmatics 21, 401-426.Maltz, D.N., & Borker, R.A. 1982. A cultural approach to male/female miscommunication. In J. Gumperz (ed.) Language and Social Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 195-216.Παυλίδου, Θ.-Σ. 2006. Γλώσσα-γένος-φύλο. Στο Θ.-Σ. Παυλίδου (επιμ.), Γλώσσα-Γένος-Φύλο (2η έκδοση). Θεσσαλονίκη: Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών, Ίδρυμα Μ. Τριανταφυλλίδη, 15-64.Reichert, Τ. 2003. The prevalence of sexual imagery in ads targeted to young adults. Journal of Consumer Affairs 37, 403-504.Στάμου, Α. Γ. 2012. Αναπαραστάσεις της κοινωνιογλωσσικής πραγματικότητας στα κείμενα μαζικής κουλτούρας: Αναλυτικό πλαίσιο για την ανάπτυξη της κριτικής γλωσσικής επίγνωσης. Γλωσσολογία/Glossologia 20, 19-38.Στάμου Α. Γ. & Μαλέσκου, Χ. 2007. Η αναπαράσταση της γυναίκας στην ελληνική τηλεόραση: Η περίπτωση των ελληνικών σήριαλ. Βήμα Κοινωνικών Επιστημών ΪΓ(49), 181-198.Sacks, Η. 1992. Lectures on Conversation (2 vol. ed.), Edited by G. Jefferson, introduction by E.Schegloff. Oxford: Blackwell. [Combined vols, ed., 1995]Silverstein, M. 1976. Shifters, linguistic categories and cultural description. In K. H. Basso & H. A. Selby (eds) Meaning in Anthropology. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 11-55.Stamou, A. G. 2014. A literature review on the mediation of sociolinguistic style in television and cinematic fiction: Sustaining the ideology of authenticity. Language & Literature 23 (2), 118-140.Stamou, A. G., Maroniti, Κ. & Dinas, Κ. D. 2012. Representing "traditional" and"progressive" women in Greek television: The role of "feminine"/ "masculine" speech styles in the mediation of gender identity construction. Women's Studies International Forum 35 (1), 38-52.Stamou, A. G., Maroniti, Κ. & Griva, E. (in preparation). Young children talk about their popular cartoon and TV heroes' speech styles: Media reception and language attitudes.Stokoe, E. H. 2004. Gender and discourse, gender and categorization: Current developments in language and gender research. Qualitative Research in Psychology 1 (2), 107-129.Τσάκωνα, Β. 2013. Η κοινωνιογλωσσολογία του χιούμορ. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Γρηγόρη.Τσάκωνα, Β. 2014. Ανάλυση χιουμοριστικού λόγου. Στο Μ. Γεωργαλίδου, Μ. Σηφιανού, & Β. Τσάκωνα (επιμ.) Ανάλυση λόγου: Θεωρία και εφαρμογές. Αθήνα: Νήσος, 295-324.Tannen, D. 1990. You Just Don't Understand. New York: Ballantine Books.Thorne, B. 1993. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School. Buckingham: Open University Press.
