Stories of bridal and feminine experience – production of gendered narratives in the context of media reception

• Authors: Ewa Glapka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present paper presents gendered narratives produced during research interviews with readers of a wedding magazine. While interpreting media texts, the women gave accounts of their bridal and feminine experience. Of all understandings of a narrative proposed in discourse analysis, the ones taken here are of a situated construction of self in interaction (Taylor 2006) and of an established sequence of life trajectory (Bruner 1991). Accordingly, the lived experience of identity is approached as discursively mediated – by the available set of subject positions and interpretative repertoires. In the analysis, the interviewees are found to employ socio-culturally accumulated resources of self-construction in talk. Their narrative work reveals how speakers (despite their dependency on the intertextual reservoir of notions, images and associations) seek to position themselves as independent and agentic subjects of discourse.

Keywords

EN

media discourse; interpretative repertoires; gender identity; subject positions

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 48
• Pages: 127-148

Dates

published

2012

received

2011-11-01

revised

2011-12-20

accepted

2011-12-23

Contributors

author

Ewa Glapka

• University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/psicl-2012-0007