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 - 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.
Publications
- Makulik, Fiona. 2025. Disruptive und diskursive Ereignisse. Ein Vorschlag zur Ausdifferenzierung mit Beispielen aus dem feministischen Abtreibungsdiskurs Disruptive und diskursive Ereignisse. In Meier-Vieracker, Simon, Silvia Bonacchi, Hanna Acke, Mark Dang-Anh & Ingo H. Warnke (eds.). Discourses in/of Disruption (Diskurs – interdisziplinär 12), 25-38. Online-Only Publikationen des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache. 10.21248/idsopen.9.2025.42
- Makulik, Fiona. 2024. Relationen. Das verknüpfende Glied zwischen Positionierung und Widersprechen. Eine Illustration anhand des feministischen Abtreibungsdiskurs. In Berlage, Lara, Julian Engelken, Peter Ernst, Jan Hensellek, Lara Herford, Louis Hypius, Sargis Poghosyan, Angelina Schellin, Susanne Sophie Schmalwieser & Ingo H. Warnke (eds.). Debattieren, Opponieren, Protestieren. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf sprachliche Praktiken des Widersprechens. 48-57. Universität Bremen. 10.26092/elib/3135
- Makulik, Fiona. 2024. Zur Ästhetik von Widerspruchspraxen am Beispiel des feministischen Abtreibungsdiskurses in den 1970er Jahren. In Wengeler, Martin & Kersten Sven Roth (eds.). aptum, Zeitschrift für Sprachkritik und Sprachkultur 20 (01). Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag GmbH. 10.46771/9783967694345_5
Talks, Workshops and Events
- 04.06.2025
Talk Antifeminismus im digitalen Raum. Der Einsatz von Invektiven und Widersprechen als Mittel der Delegitimierung feministischer Proteste at the Conference „Das geht zu weit!“, Freie Universität Berlin - 12.02.2025
Vortrag How a Counter-Discourse is Constituted: The Feminist Abortion Discourse as a Construct of Contradiction and Positioning at the Conference Exploring Contradictions beyond Contradiction, University of Bremen - 09. – 10.09.2024
Talk Positionswechsel – ein diachroner Blick auf den feministischen Abtreibungsdiskurs in Deutschland at the Conference Zur Debatte, Bioethik-Kontroversen, Sprachliche, philosophische und historische Aspekte, Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas Marburg - 25.01.2024
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), University of Marburg - 16. – 17.11.2023
Talk Nur Widersprüche oder doch diskursive (disruptive) Ereignisse? [Only contradictions or discursive (disruptive) events after all?] at the Conference Discourses in/of Disruption, TU Dresden - 05. – 06.05.2023
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, University of Bremen - 2016
Talk at the Junior Symposium of the Conference Network Discourse – Interdisciplinary at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim
Teaching
- SoSe 2024
Lecture Einführung in die Syntax with Jonas Trochemowitz