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- Title
Syntactic feminitives in Russian: a case study of an online Russian language radical feminist group.
- Authors
Saifeeva, Kamila
- Abstract
This paper analyzes the use of alternative feminine agreement in constructions with an interrogative-relative pronoun kto, indefinite pronouns kto-to, kto-nibud', and koe-kto, and a negative pronoun nikto, followed by verbal and nominal predicates in an online Russian language radical feminist group Podslušano Feminizm 'Overheard Feminism'. In modern Russian, predicates used with subjects expressed by aforementioned pronouns take the singular masculine form in the past tense, regardless of the number and gender of people to which they refer. Using posts and commentaries from an online group Podslušano Feminizm as a case study, this paper builds upon the ideas of positioning theory and argues that such non-standard agreement serves as an identity marker, indexing the group's participants as (1) females and (2) (radical) feminists. By marking their belonging to a specific group/community, both in a broad ("(radical) feminists") and narrow sense ("participants of the Podslušano Feminizm online group"), the strategy of feminine agreement contributes to the construction of both individual and group identities through the processes of affiliation and disaffiliation.
- Subjects
RADICAL feminism; RUSSIAN language; ONLINE identities; VIRTUAL communities; GROUP identity; IDEA (Philosophy); PRONOUNS (Grammar)
- Publication
Russian Linguistics, 2024, Vol 48, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0304-3487
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11185-024-09295-2