Discourse Analysis of Feminitives (Based on the French-Speaking Media)

Social schemes are coded in the language, it reflects the reality we live in, including the women position in society, the attitude towards them. Feminist criticism of the language (feminist linguistics) is a linguistic school, its main goal is to criticize and overcome the male domination reflected in the language. Studying and the critical discourse analysis of the media make it possible to examine the gender marking at a larger level of the language – the discursive level. The aim of the work is to carry out a critical discourse analysis of the most commonly used variants of the gender marking on the materials of the French-language media. In this paper, we used the method of critical discourse analysis by Teun A. van Dijk. In the study, we needed to find out whether the ideology of sexism in the discourse of modern French-language media is present to some extent (in terms of the news portal " Le Monde "), in articles using specific forms designed to denote women in the language, and answer the question what structures, strategies and other attributes of the text express this ideology. In the course of the work, we found out that ideological texts have women in "prestigious" or "male" professions as themes in terms of patriarchal paradigm. The texts about women with more "female" professions do not contain ideological polarization of in-groups and out-groups, they also do not contain an explicitly or implicitly expressed the ideology of sexism. The presence in the language of gender markings does not indicate a lack of sexism in society. In modern texts of French-language articles, strategies for mitigating and hiding dominance are more likely than supporting, excusing, denying or ignoring it. In the course of the study, we came across strategies for implicit support for the status quo, attempts to hide or soften it, which is also a way of reproducing domination.