(Lanser, 2008) describes one of the main points of feminist criticism as "that narrative texts... are profoundly (if not simply) referential" . Semiotics in relation to verbal language is described by Herman as "a conventional relationship between signifier and signified" (p281). One way of combining mimetic and semiotic is to look at conventions in the semiotics of verbal language "that suggest a synthesis of feminist ideas". narratology that reflects the referential or mimetic experience as well as the semiotic experience of reading literature”. (Lanser, 2008, p. 345) Herman calls the “conventional relationship between signifier and signified” semiotics. Observing these conventions would re-establish the contexts of “production… and reception” (Lanser, 2008, p. 344) so ​​important to feminist criticism, while utilizing some of the formal insights of narratology. Charlotte Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper can be analyzed within the framework of feminist narratology by looking at both the narrative voice (this is the context of production) and also the narrative features (which depend much more on the context of reception). Some linguists, as Lanser notes, have argued that there is a woman's speech or speech of the powerless 'polite, emotional, enthusiastic, gossipy, talkative, uncertain, obtuse and loquacious speech' in contrast to men's speech or powerful speech. . We may disagree that women's speech is essentially like this, but The Yellow Wallpaper suggests that there is certainly a particular way in which men expect women to speak and behave. As Ford notes “There can be little doubt that the narrator inhabits the midst of a patriarchy” (Gilman, 1997, p. 309). She lives in "ancestral halls", has just given birth to a child and is... .... middle of paper ......363. [Accessed 3 March 2014]Lanser, S., 'Toward a Feminist Narratology' Available from: [Accessed 3 March 2014]Lanser, S., 'Toward Feminist Narratology' Available from: http://www.rlwclarke.net /courses /LITS3304/2002-2003/SN10AFeministNarratology.htm[Accessed 3 March 2014]Page, R., Literary and linguistic approaches to feminist narratology Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. p. 1-16.Rabinowitz, P., 'Truth in Fiction: An Audience Reexamination'. Available from: In Critical Inquiry 4 (Fall 1977). [Accessed March 3, 2014]Treichler, P., Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 3, No. 1/2, Feminist Issues in LiteraryScholarship Available from::< http://www.jstor.org/stable/463825> [Accessed March 10 2014]