ПАРАГРАФЕМНІ ЗАСОБИ В КОНСТРУЮВАННІ ГЕНДЕРНОЇ ІДЕНТИЧНОСТІ АВТОРА

Abstract

One of the tasks of modern gender linguistics is to reveal non-verbal means that help to construe gender distinctions of the character and the image of the author as well. Studying the critical literature concerning such aspects as the image of the author, implied author, author and narrator proved the actuality of the subject of the given investigation. Critical works’ analysis showed that this facet has not been studied well, there are still a lot of gaps, as for instance, non-verbal means of author’s image construing. Purpose. The paper aims to reveal paragraphemic means used by the women writers in French autobiographical novels and suggest narrative and pragmatic facet of author’s gender identity construing in French autobiographical novels written by women writers. Methods. To define the functions of paragraphemic means in author’s gender identity construing the investigation is methodologically grounded on narrative, pragmatic and stylistic analysis. Results: The paper singles out and classifies the group of paragraphemic means which help to construe author’s gender identity in French autobiographical novel written by women-writers. Dominant place among such means belongs to the pictures breaking the narrative of the novel, the size of narrative, italic means of accentuating the author’s intention and numbering the abstracts. Conclusion. Paragraphemics is applied facet in linguistics that studies graphical text organization and the functions of nonverbal means in revealing the author’s intentions. Being restricted in their proper meanings non-verbal means bound semantic variety of phrase or supra-phrasal units. They introduce some information in that way as it is supposed to be decoded by the reader. Non-verbal means help to make the image of the author and construe his/her gender identity.

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Олена Тучкова

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Олена Тучкова (2017). ПАРАГРАФЕМНІ ЗАСОБИ В КОНСТРУЮВАННІ ГЕНДЕРНОЇ ІДЕНТИЧНОСТІ АВТОРА. Вісник Київського національного лінгвістичного університету. Серія Філологія, 20(2), 124-130. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-305410