Discursive Strategies Contributing to Stigma towards Involuntary Childless Women in the Gikùyù Community
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Positioning women in a situation where motherhood is associated with womanhood has led to stigma towards those who do not have children. They are perceived as outsiders their communities, and language used advance the ideologies that support discrimination. The use of discursive techniques been essential stigmatising categorising childlessness. Linguistic created by other ideas. Degrading discourse strategies language-based significant impact on how childless viewed. paper’s approaches were centred involuntarily Gikùyù community experience. study was informed Fairclough Van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Different elements like vocabulary, grammatical structure, semantics ought be examined individually, according CDA functions should disregarded. purpose assess women. purposive sampling choose villages Tetu sub-county, Nyeri County. Kǐandu, Ndǔgamano Kǐgogoinǐ. researcher focus group discussions (FGDs) order collect data. Twelve participated FGD respondents, four each FGD. data then audio recorded, analysed, categorised into themes. will benefit linguists since it educate them extent which may stigmatise social groups prepare advocate for change when needed. This discussion highlight connection between gender motivate curriculum designers include linguistic stigma, researchers issues. Involuntary stigmatised linguistically study, these rebrand themselves accepting reclaiming identity
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عنوان ژورنال: East African journal of arts and social sciences
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2707-4277', '2707-4285']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37284/eajass.6.1.1260