Fiona Sophie Makulik
Abortion – Diachrony of a Counter Discourse
The subject of this paper are the so-called practices of contradiction that were used in the German abortion discourse. This refers to statements that are directed against something, i.e. that are used to contradict something. The actors taken into account can largely be assigned to the feminist camp or the women’s rights movement, whereby the data comes from various women’s archives. Three time periods are taken into account, which stand out due to concise discursive events: 1971-75, 1990-94, 2018-2022. Thus, a diachronic perspective is taken on a partial discourse that resists the dominant discourse. Due to its subject matter and the underlying theory, the work is assigned to feminist linguistics as well as discourse and political linguistics.
Research interests
- feminist linguistics
- discourse linguistics
- political linguistics
- internet linguistics
Vita
- since 2023
elected member of the Care, Equality and Diversity Board at the RTG Contradiction Studies - 2022
Master’s degree in language and communication studies at the University of Greifswald - 2020
Internship at the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Zurich). - 2019 – 2021
Student assistant at the Institute for German Philology (University of Greifswald; Prof. Dr. Konstanze Marx). - 2018
Bachelor in German Studies and Philosophy at the University of Bremen - 2017
student assistant at the conference Contradiction Studies: Mapping the Field - 2015 – 2017
Student assistant in the project Linguistic Practices of Paradoxical Recognition of Person and Thing in German Colonialism at the University of Bremen, Prof. Philipp Dreesen - 2022
Member of the Working Group on Linguistic Pragmatics e.V. - 2018
Member of the Working Group Language in Politics e.V.
Talks, Workshops and Events
- 2024
Talk Zwischen Linguistik, Widersprüchen und Feminismus. Ein Werkstattbericht zum Promotionsprojekt Abtreibung – Diachronie eines Gegendiskurses at the seminar Sprache, Wissen, Macht in biomedizinischen Diskursen (Dr. Constanze Spieß and Lesley-Ann Kern). 25.01.2024, University of Marburg - 2023
Talk Nur Widersprüche oder doch diskursive (disruptive) Ereignisse? [Only contradictions or discursive (disruptive) events after all?] at the Conference: Discourses in/of Disruption. 16.11.-17.11.2023, TU Dresden - 2023
Talk Zur Beziehung von Positionierung und Widersprechen am Beispiel des feministischen Abtreibungsdiskurses in Deutschland. [On the Relation between Opponing and Objecting in Feminist Discourse on Abortion in Germany]. at the Conference: Debate, Oppogne, Protest – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Linguistic Practices of Objecting. International Student’s Conference 05.05-06.05.2023 - 2016
Talk at the junior symposium of the conference network Discourse – interdisciplinary at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim
Teaching
- Summer Term 2024
Lecture Einführung in die Syntax
with Jonas Trochemowitz