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The intertextuality and interdiscursivity of "mirroring" in South Korean cyberfeminist posts

Authors
Yang, SunyoungLee, Kathy
Issue Date
Sep-2022
Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Keywords
Critical discourse analysis; gender relations; interdiscursivity; intertextuality; online communication; feminist post-structuralism; South Korea
Citation
DISCOURSE & SOCIETY, v.33, no.5, pp 671 - 689
Pages
19
Indexed
SSCI
SCOPUS
Journal Title
DISCOURSE & SOCIETY
Volume
33
Number
5
Start Page
671
End Page
689
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/142139
DOI
10.1177/09579265221096028
ISSN
0957-9265
1460-3624
Abstract
This study examines the phenomenon of "mirroring" used by Womad, a cyberfeminist community in South Korea. Mirroring involves the reversal of gender to spotlight misogynist practices that might otherwise go unnoticed. To better understand mirroring, we introduce selected posts from Ilbe, a male-dominant online forum, known for denigrating Korean women and then analyze Womad's posts on similar topics following approaches in critical discourse analysis and feminist post-structuralism. Our analysis examines two main linguistic strategies of mirroring that Womad uses to disrupt gendered ideologies. First, we focus on the use of intertextuality in Womad's posts through their adoption of Ilbe's masculine register to combat misogyny by targeting men. Interdiscursivity is another important strategy Womad users deploy to foreground the inequities entrenched in Korea's long-standing patriarchy. Ultimately, mirroring offers critiques of gender inequity and misogyny through active engagements with everyday linguistic practices online while opening up new possibilities for gender politics.
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