Abstract
The present study sets out to investigate gender as performative construct and its importance for feminists in general and especially for women in Pakistani society. Different ways of conceptualizing gender-difference along with various social, cultural and psychological dimensions have been explored. The study looks into the factors in which discursive language practices in various dimensions work to construct women identities. Subsequent parts of the study examine different reasons and mechanisms that can account for dichotomous speech patterns and asymmetries which exist between participants in social discourse. Moreover, the two-way function of language has been focused as on the one hand language reflects the social identity of women performed through the language itself, and the realities about the social position of women in Pakistan on the other.
Author(s):
Dr. Mamuna Ghani
ProfessorDepartment of English, The Islamia University, Bahawalpur
Pakistan
Bushra Naz
LecturerDepartment of English, The Islamia University, Bahawalpur
Pakistan
Rabia Akram
Research ScholarDepartment of English, The Islamia University, Bahawalpur
Pakistan
Details:
| Type: | Article |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Language: | English |
| Id: | 5e8075de12183 |
| Pages | 1 - 12 |
| Discipline: | English |
| Published | December 31, 2007 |
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