LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION OF THE TERM “VICTIM-BLAMING” BY MALE AUTHORS (BASED ON THE ARTICLES ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE NEWSPAPER “NEW YORK TIMES”)

The social issue of domestic violence has been in the discourse over seventy years already and the stigma around it is still very deep. This paper presents the linguistic study of the term ‘victim-blaming' and its representation in the articles about domestic violence in ‘New York Times' written by men. To see the tendencies articles from the second and fourth waves of feminism were taken for the analysis. The research examines covert victim-blaming with the help of Critical Discourse Analysis and two methods from there: lexical analysis and transitivity. This paper aims to demonstrate that language used by reporters only deepen the stigma and prejudices around the victims of domestic violence, and that the problem and the society are calling for changes.