Tsapro, Galyna (2025) A new voice of everyday womanhood: Bridget Jones’s diary and the birth of modern chick-lit In: Романо-германські мови: загальні тенденції розвитку мовних явищ, контрастивні та ареальні дослідження, 12 листопада 2025 р, м. Дніпро, Україна.
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Abstract
This article examines Bridget Jones’s Diary (1996) by Helen Fielding as the foundational text of modern chick-lit, focusing on how everyday language becomes a mode of gender self-representation. Through analysis of diary form, irony, and conversational syntax, the study shows how private speech registers internalised social norms and negotiates post-feminist femininity through humour and self-commentary. The novel is interpreted as a linguistic and cultural document of the 1990s that establishes chick-lit as a discourse-based genre grounded in everyday female communication rather than thematic unity.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Bridget Jones’s Diary; chick-lit; everyday discourse; post-feminist femininity; irony |
| Subjects: | Наукові конференції > Всеукраїнські |
| Divisions: | Факультет романо-германської філології > Кафедра англійської мови та комунікації |
| Depositing User: | доцент Галина Юріївна Цапро |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Feb 2026 09:05 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2026 09:05 |
| URI: | https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/56413 |
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