Gender discrimination and stereotyping of Iraqi Jokes on facebook social network : a critical discourse approach

Abstract EN

Joke telling is considered as one of the cultural and sociological manifestations of any society.

These jokes reflect the ideological socio-cultural points of view of individuals as well as the society as whole.

This paper tries to shed light on how jokes create discrimination and serotyping towards women in the Iraqi society.

The researcher adopts the critical approaches of analysing such phenomena, as they are more productive in detecting such ideological and stereotyping.

The researcher concludes that the collected jokes are used to reflect women stereotype vs.

men stereotype, sexually motivated jokes, women's naivety or stupidity, and women wickedness or evilness.

Moreover, they vary in expressing and reflecting the negative image(s) of women either explicitly or implicitly using different linguistic tools.