There were always two images presented: A positive image of the superior, knowledgeable, rational men, and a negative image of the talkative, ignorant women who are unfit for the public sphere.Ī critical perspective on unequal social arrangements sustained through language use, with the goals of social transformation and emancipation, constitutes the cornerstone of critical discourse analysis (CDA) and many feminist language studies. Through employing van Dijk's (2003) ideological discourse strategies, the study shows that in all these themes that there has been a common explicit or implicit division of the world.

It addresses four themes: women and language women in the public and private spheres women as sex objects and finally the image of Egyptian women as compared to non-Egyptian women. The paper shows how language is used and manipulated to serve maintaining the status quo of gender inequality and masculine hegemony in the Egyptian society. The study aims at shedding some light on the stereotypical patterns of the representation of women in Egyptian sexist internet jokes.

Promoting Masculine Hegemony through Humour: A Linguistic Analysis of Gender Stereotyping in Egyptian Sexist Internet Jokes

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