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How do we learn what it means to be a man? And how do we learn to
question what it means to be a man? This collection comprises a set
of original interdisciplinary chapters on the linguistic and
cultural representations of queer masculinities in a range of new
and older media: television, film, online forums, news reporting,
advertising and fiction. This innovative work examines new and
emerging forms of gender hybridisation in relation to complex
socialisation and immigration contexts including the role of EU
institutions in ascertaining asylum seekers' sexual orientation,
and the European laws on gender policy. The book employs numerous
analytical approaches including critical discourse analysis, corpus
linguistics, multimodal analysis, literary criticism and
anthropological and social research. The authors show how such
texts can disrupt, question or complicate traditional notions of
what it means to be a man, queering the idea that men possess fixed
identities or desires, instead arguing that masculinity is
constantly changing and negotiated through the cultural and
political overlapping contexts in which it is regularly produced.
These nuanced analyses will bring fresh insights for students and
scholars of gender, masculinity and queer studies, linguistics,
anthropology and semiotics.
How do we learn what it means to be a man? And how do we learn to
question what it means to be a man? This collection comprises a set
of original interdisciplinary chapters on the linguistic and
cultural representations of queer masculinities in a range of new
and older media: television, film, online forums, news reporting,
advertising and fiction. This innovative work examines new and
emerging forms of gender hybridisation in relation to complex
socialisation and immigration contexts including the role of EU
institutions in ascertaining asylum seekers' sexual orientation,
and the European laws on gender policy. The book employs numerous
analytical approaches including critical discourse analysis, corpus
linguistics, multimodal analysis, literary criticism and
anthropological and social research. The authors show how such
texts can disrupt, question or complicate traditional notions of
what it means to be a man, queering the idea that men possess fixed
identities or desires, instead arguing that masculinity is
constantly changing and negotiated through the cultural and
political overlapping contexts in which it is regularly produced.
These nuanced analyses will bring fresh insights for students and
scholars of gender, masculinity and queer studies, linguistics,
anthropology and semiotics.
This edited volume brings together original sociolinguistic and
cultural contributions on food as an instrument to explore
diasporic identities. Focusing on food practices in cross-cultural
contact, the authors reveal how they can be used as a powerful
vehicle for positive intercultural exchange either though
conservation and the maintenance of cultural continuity, or through
hybridization and the means through which migrant communities find
compromise, or even consent, within the host community. Each
chapter presents a fascinating range of data and new perspectives
on cultures and languages in contact: from English (and some of its
varieties) to Italian, German, Spanish, and to Japanese and
Palauan, as well as an exemplary range of types of contact, in
colonial, multicultural, and diasporic situations. The authors use
a range of integrated approaches to examine how socio-linguistic
food practices can, and do, contribute to identity construction in
diverse transnational and diasporic contexts. The book will be of
particular interest to students and scholars of translation,
semiotics, cultural studies and sociolinguistics.
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