Title: GENDER DISCOURSE: SPECIFICITY OF SPEECH TACTICS OF A FEMALE LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY (BY THE MATERIAL OF M. K. ANISIMKOVA’S NOVEL “THE CRY OF THE LOON”)
Abstract: The article analyses gender discourse in order to identify the specificity of speech tactics of a female linguistic personality. Relevance of the study is conditioned by the fact that the authors refer to regional material: the analysis is conducted on the basis of the historical novel of the famous Yugra writer M. K. Anisimkova “The Cry of the Loon”. Originality of the research lies in the fact that the emphasis is made on grammatical forms; peculiarities of speech behaviour are considered through the lenses of formal indicators and lexemes’ grammatical meanings. The analysis of the linguistic material shows that women’s speech has its own lexical and grammatical peculiarities.