Miss Man Languaging Gendered Bodies

Author : Giuseppe Balirano
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527526658
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Man? Languaging Gendered Bodies written by Giuseppe Balirano and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws together contributions containing original research on a number of linguistic and semiotic understandings of gender in the context of current debates about gender non-conforming people and diverse ways of ‘doing’ masculinities. It contests the constraints, stereotypes, and prejudices concerning gender nonconformity by sparking academic inquiry, possibly leading to social change. The book explores various gender non-conforming tropes as they apply either to same-sex related desires, identities, and practices or to other dimensions of gender non-normative experiences, such as weak or socially-perceived as unacceptable representations of manliness. The volume demonstrates that language matters in the everyday experience of gender diversity beyond traditional gender binarism. By modelling some of the approaches that are now being explored in linguistic and gender studies and by addressing language use over a range of diamesic, diastratic and diatopic contexts, all contributors here discuss cogent issues in language and gender.

Author : Angela Zottola
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135009756X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transgender Identities in the Press written by Angela Zottola and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PROSE Award (2022) for Language & Linguistics For many people, newspapers are a key source of information on many topics, including issues related to gender and sexuality. Applying a broad range of corpus linguistic methods, Transgender Identities in the Press critically explores the linguistic cues and patterns used by the print media in their representation of trans people. Through close analysis of a corpus of articles collected from English-language newspapers from the UK and Canada, Angela Zottola focuses on the semantic categories of representation associated with transgender identities. Exploring a set of key terms, this book examines the semantic prosody and the language choices that each term is invested with, using Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate how the way the press represents this topic influences readers and their understanding of the major debates. Using a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods, Transgender Identities in the Press casts light on the complex picture of press language during a period of social change and increasing awareness. Highlighting both efforts to represent this community in an inclusive and non-discriminatory way and areas where there is need for improvement, this book illustrates a variety of issues from a critical and social perspective.

Author : Heiko Motschenbacher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000509818
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Dimensions of Sexual Normativity written by Heiko Motschenbacher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances the theorization of normativity as a key concept in language and sexuality studies, bringing together some of the author’s previous work with new material for a comprehensive exploration of the influence of normativity on the relationship between language and sexuality. The first section of the book outlines fundamental areas of inquiry in language and sexuality studies today, with a focus on queer linguistic inquiry, and elucidates the book’s theoretical frameworks around normativity. Chapters in the section reflect on the ways in which normativity shapes sexuality-related language, how language is employed to convey sexual normativities and queer linguistic challenges for the use of research methods in the discipline through a discussion of their implementation in corpus linguistics. The second part of the book builds on these theoretical foundations by featuring seven case studies that illustrate a diverse range of methods and language data, with a concluding chapter considering the implications of their findings for furthering theoretical debates and future research on normativity in language and sexuality studies. This volume will be of interest to scholars in language and sexuality, language and gender, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics and corpus linguistics.

Author : Stefania M. Maci
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000990168
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation written by Stefania M. Maci and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of research into discourses of disinformation, misinformation, post-truth, alternative facts, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and "fake news". Divided into two sections, it provides a detailed look at the methodological challenges and approaches for studying disinformation, along with a wide range of case studies covering everything from climate change denial to COVID-19 conspiracies. The studies address how discourses of disinformation are constructed and developed, what rhetorical and persuasive strategies they employ, how disinformation can be discerned from real news, and what steps we might take in order to create a more trustworthy news environment. Authored by leading experts from around the world, and showcasing the most up-to-date methodological approaches to the topic, the volume makes a significant contribution to current linguistic research on politics, and is an essential guide to the discourses of disinformation for advanced students and researchers of English language studies, linguistics, and media and communication studies.

Author : Shelly Clevenger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000957217
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Victimology written by Shelly Clevenger and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Gives readers insight into queer victimization and the experiences of LGBTQIA individuals as victims • Uses creative works to give voice to those who have often been voiceless • The first academic book to look exclusively at queer victimology and victims • Written in an accessible way for students, scholars, and people in the community

Author : Penelope Eckert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521654265
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Gender written by Penelope Eckert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Author : Alan Elangovan
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1543781721
Total Pages : 1177 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering Body Language written by Alan Elangovan and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 1177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Discovering Body Language (DBL): For Your EYES Only” is a classic; it gives a timeless message about the use of body language in different circumstances. The book surmises both the positive and negative messages that people portray through the course of conversation. The aim of this book is to sharpen your eyes to see the hidden. A lot of people do not know the signs of deception even if they are glaring and that is why such individuals fall prey of unwanted circumstances. If you make this book your companion, then it becomes your inner sight to have a thorough understanding of people’s thoughts and intents towards you. This book only discusses an aspect of the areas covered in The Encyclopedia of Body Language, a best-seller by the author. In the latter, the author holistically x-rayed all aspects of body language and readers can convert body language knowledge to profit. It is a book that sets captives of communication free. The greatest giveaway of this book is that you will know how to read body language effectively. The author does not offer limited knowledge here. Rather, he gives every reader the master key to make informed decisions by listening to the body language of their co-interlocutors.

Author : Heiko Motschenbacher
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027218684
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Gender and Sexual Identity written by Heiko Motschenbacher and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes an innovative contribution to the relatively young field of Queer Linguistics. Subscribing to a poststructuralist framework, it presents a critical, deconstructionist perspective on the discursive construction of heteronormativity and gender binarism from a linguistic point of view. On the one hand, the book provides an outline of Queer approaches to issues of language, gender and sexual identity that is of interest to students and scholars new to the field. On the other hand, the empirical analyses of language data represent material that also appeals to experts in the field. The book deals with repercussions of the discursive materialisation of heteronormativity and gender binarism in various kinds of linguistic data. These include stereotypical genderlects, structural linguistic gender categories (especially from a contrastive linguistic point of view), the discursive sedimentation of female and feminine generics, linguistic constructions of the gendered body in advertising and the usage of personal reference forms to create characters in Queer Cinema. Throughout the book, readers become aware of the wounding potential that gendered linguistic forms may possess in certain contexts.

Author : Beth Allison Barr
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843833734
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval England written by Beth Allison Barr and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close examination of religious texts illuminates the way in which parish priests dealt with their female parishioners in the middle ages.

Author : Susan A. Speer
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415246431
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Talk written by Susan A. Speer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a powerful case for the application of discursive psychology to feminism, guiding the reader through cutting-edge debates and providing valuable evidence of the benefits of discursive methodologies.