GERMAN

Sprachgeprägte Frauenbilder: Soziale Stereotype im Mädchenbuch des 19. Jahrhunderts und ihre diskursive Konstituierung

By Christa Stöcker

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2005
ISBN
9783110910575, 9783484312623
DOI
10.1515/9783110910575
Language
german
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12853710 bytes)
Series
Reihe Germanistische Linguistik; 262
Pages
379\380
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-29 14:14:30

Description

Social stereotypes (e.g. images of women) are language-based and are thus reflected in a society's designative and descriptive practices. With reference to literary discourse in 19th century girls' books, the present study develops a method for the reconstruction of such language-based images by analyzing (a) references to persons and (b) collocations. The author demonstrates inter alia how the category of the Backfisch (a now largely obsolete but formerly widely used expression for »teenage girl«) and the image of women bound up with it developed between 1850 and 1914. Thus the book also represents a contribution to the history of mentality in the 19th century.

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