Gender Factor in Political Discourse (Based on Public Speeches of Kyrgyz and English Politicians)
摘要
The purpose of this study was to identify trends in the manifestation of gender stereotypes in the speech of women and men in the political sphere. It was of interest to analyse the differences in verbal communication of politicians of different genders in different countries: Dinara Ashimova and Sadyr Zhaparov from Kyrgyzstan, and Boris Johnson and Liz Truss from the UK. The study conducted a qualitative content analysis based on speeches and speeches of politicians from Kyrgyzstan and the UK. As a result of the analysis, it was possible to establish that the gender factor in the political discourse of Kyrgyz and British politicians differs in four structures: semantic, syntactic, rhetorical and sentence structure. Despite the stereotypes ingrained in international society about masculine and feminine characteristics of communications in political discourse, such stereotypes were confirmed by the example of three politicians: Boris Johnson, Dinara Ashimova and Sadyr Zhaparov. While male politicians, regardless of the country of operation, minimally use feminine aspects in their statements, Dinara Ashimova also minimally uses masculine aspects in her speech. But Liz Truss’ speech aroused interest because it did not confirm the use of exclusively feminine stereotypical aspects in speech. Based on the results of Liz Truss’ speeches, it was found that the politician effectively combines both feminine and masculine aspects in her speech, thus giving her statements confidence and emotional intensity.