AUTHOR’S GENDER MASK IN SPEECH: VERBAL MANIFESTATION (ON THE BASIS OF ROMANCE NOVELS BY E.L. JAMES)

Abstract

Purpose. The article is devoted to the topical in modern society problem of the subjective self-perception and self-consciousness of the personality in the context of the gender identity. The author aims to figure out the way of translation in written form of female identity as gender “fitting”. Methodology. The basis of the research is the definitional analysis of modern gender concepts, contextual analysis of speech material of the literary texts, interpretation and systematization of linguistic facts, quantitative and qualitative data treatment. Results. The results of the study are that the author made the attempt to comprehend a written literary text taking into account the latest achievements in the field of language and gender. The analysis of the verbal semantic space, represented in the novels Fifty Shades of Grey and Grey. Fifty Shades of Grey as told by Christian by E.L. James (about 9 000 manifestations), justifies the hypothesis of the opportunity to transform the author’s identity in textual by means of gender mask. Practical implications. The results of the study can be applied in the process of practical systematic study of usage of the verb (and the verbal forms) in the realization of gender aspect in literary text.

Keywords

• женская субъективность
• идентичность
• любовный роман
• глагол
• авторская маска
• гендерная «примерка»