SCIENTIFIC SERIES
“COGNITIVE STUDIES OF LANGUAGE”
Author: O.V. Kirina
Abstract: The article studies gender specifics of aposiopesis in literary texts of modern female writers. The problem of “female writing” and different points of view on this problem are reviewed. The modern stage of linguistics genderology development is characterized by rejection of the idea re-garding gender as a constant factor defining communicative strategies of the speaker. Modern re-searches assume that the speaker is free to choose either feminine or masculine style in accordance with his or her communicative goal. Aposiopesis as a specific means of sense formation in the liter-ary text can serve for realizing either feminine or masculine communicative strategies.
Keywords: gender approach, linguistic genderology, feminine and masculine discourses, aposiopesis, feminine and masculine styles.
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Pages: 974-978