Alpha Masculinity - Hegemony in Language and Discourse (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

This book examines the linguistic and discursive mechanisms that realize the mythological American Alpha Male. Providing an in-depth dissection of corpora from an online socio-commercial community, a pop-psychology guru, and fictional gay erotica, it unravels the ways language, gender, and hegemony play out in this ideological figure of neopositive, essentialist masculinity. Through a detailed, multi-level analysis, Russell shows how the Alpha figure combines elements of dominance, normativity, and androcentrism and how these forces intersect with neoliberal and pseudoscientific discourses to establish a uniquely hybridized male hegemony, one that is familiar to most, but whose internal mechanisms remain largely unquestioned and unexamined. This book will be of interest to academic scholars in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, cultural studies, and gender and sexualities studies.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality
Release date:	April 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Eric Louis Russell
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	249
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-070469-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
LSN:	3-03-070469-6
Barcode:	9783030704698

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