It’s your fault: A critical discourse analysis of narratives surrounding gender-based violence in a Russian talk show
Kamalova A.
31 December 2024John Benjamins Publishing Company
Language, Culture and Society
2024#6Issue 2190 - 222 pp.
While the problem still remains decriminalised in Russia, this study explores domestic violence victims’ storytelling in four episodes of the popular Russian talk show Pust’ Govoryat, which aired from 2017 to 2020. By drawing upon De Fina’s (2021) narratives-as-practice approach and van Leeuwen’s (2008) CDA theory, I critically examine storytelling as a discourse practice itself and situate constructed identities, norms, and values in wider dominant discourses of country’s social and political life. Corpus-assisted discourse analysis (Baker 2012) helps to analyse the representation of abusers and victims. Qualitative and quantitative analyses suggest that the show, broadcast on the main state-funded federal channel, propagates a family ideology that supports victim-blaming, normalises and depolitisises domestic violence. The research indicates that such an anti-feminist, misogynist, and patriarchal discourse becomes an integral part of the state’s anti-Western and anti-liberal ideology and resonates with the general increase in epistemological violence in today’s Russia.
anti-feminism , corpus-assisted analysis , gender-based violence , media , narrative analysis , Russia
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Suleyman Demirel University, Kazakhstan
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