Feminitives in Оlena Ryzhko's Story “The Girl from the City” as a Tool of Creating a Language Portrait of a Teenager
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29038/2413-0923-2024-20-25-36Keywords:
feminine discourse, girls' text, character's speechAbstract
The article analyzes the functioning of feminitives in Olena Ryzhko's story “Girl from the City”. Feminine vocabulary is classified according to its role and function in the work.
The basis of the research methodology is the linguistic analysis of the text, namely the lexical units of the story “The Girl from the City” by Olena Ryzhko. It is supplemented by a contextual analysis, which allows for determining the functional features of feminitives in the text addressed to young readers. Understanding the linguistic portrait of the characters in a work of art as an object of research is highlighted by the techniques of literary interpretation and the tools of gender reading of the literary text.
The story “The Girl from the City” contains a variety of feminitive vocabulary (official, colloquial, and reduced (pejorative), which the author uses for specific purposes: to create accurate and detailed descriptions of teenage girls; to reflect the relationship of the main character with other characters; to emphasize the immaturity and insecurity of the teenage characters, to reflect the everyday speech of modern teenagers (in the dialogues between the characters); to create an emotional connection with the readers.
It was determined that in the story “Girl from the City” Olena Ryzhko actively uses feminitives as an important means of language portraiture of a teenager, which allows for reproducing the complex inner world of a modern young person. Feminine vocabulary in Tina’s speech is used to reflect her experiences, thoughts about the behavior of her classmates, understanding of the relationship with her mother, attitude towards teachers, and her self-identification in the process of growing up.
The analysis of the selected text proves that feminitives are not only a means of stylistic enrichment of the text but also an important tool in creating a linguistic portrait of the personage and conveying gender aspects of character formation.
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Ryzhko, Olena. Divchyna z mista: povist. Kyiv: VTs “Akademiia”, 2018.
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