Multisemiotic analysis of latent discrimination against feminist coaches.

  • Ilya Shmelev National Research University Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences Department of Psychology, Moscow, Russian Federation.
  • Mariia Rubtcova. Department of Sociology at the Saint Petersburg State University, Russia.
Keywords: feminism, multisemiotic theory, gender discrimination, experimental study, cross-cultural response, feminist coaches

Abstract

This article is devoted to the multisemiotic analysis of latent discrimination of feminist coaches. We conducted an experimental study of two different groups: the Russians and the Indians. The Russian (Group A) and Indian (Group B) informants evaluated facial expressions in photographs and wrote their replies and comments in a questionnaire designed to evaluate the informants’ responses to the photographs. The results show that multisemiotic analysis can provide fruitful insights into the way how the latent discrimination can be revealed using the photographs of feminist coaches and show varied ways of discrimination for different cultural backgrounds.

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Published
2017-05-01