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This volume showcases cutting-edge research in the linguistic and
discursive study of masculinities, comprising the first significant
edited collection on language and masculinities since Johnson and
Meinhof's 1997 volume. Overall, the chapters are linked together by
a critical analytical perspective that seeks to understand the
relationships between discourse, masculinities, and power. Whereas
some of the chapters offer detailed, linguistically informed
critiques of the ways in which old and new expressions of
masculinities are complicit in the reproduction of men's hegemonic
positions of power, others provide a more complex picture, one in
which collusion and subversion go hand in hand. Contributions argue
for the need for research on language and masculinities to expand
its remit so as to engage with "gay masculinities," and unsettle
gendered categories in order to consider the ways in which women,
transgender, and intersex individuals also perform a variety of
masculinities. Finally, unlike Johnson and Meinhof's 1997
collection, this volume not only offers a wider-and perhaps
"queerer" perspective-on the study of language and masculinities,
but also covers a broader geographical and socio-cultural spectrum,
including work on Brazil, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, and South
Africa.
This volume showcases cutting-edge research in the linguistic and
discursive study of masculinities, comprising the first significant
edited collection on language and masculinities since Johnson and
Meinhof's 1997 volume. Overall, the chapters are linked together by
a critical analytical perspective that seeks to understand the
relationships between discourse, masculinities, and power. Whereas
some of the chapters offer detailed, linguistically informed
critiques of the ways in which old and new expressions of
masculinities are complicit in the reproduction of men's hegemonic
positions of power, others provide a more complex picture, one in
which collusion and subversion go hand in hand. Contributions argue
for the need for research on language and masculinities to expand
its remit so as to engage with "gay masculinities," and unsettle
gendered categories in order to consider the ways in which women,
transgender, and intersex individuals also perform a variety of
masculinities. Finally, unlike Johnson and Meinhof's 1997
collection, this volume not only offers a wider-and perhaps
"queerer" perspective-on the study of language and masculinities,
but also covers a broader geographical and socio-cultural spectrum,
including work on Brazil, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, and South
Africa.
This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of
multilingualism through the lens of the important notion of
linguistic citizenship. All of the chapters are underpinned by a
theoretical and methodological engagement with linguistic
citizenship as a useful heuristic through which to understand
sociolinguistic processes in late modernity, focusing in particular
on linguistic agency and voices on the margins of our societies.
The authors take stock of conservative, liberal, progressive and
radical social transformations in democracies in the north and
south, and consider the implications for multilingualism as a
resource, as a way of life and as a feature of identity politics.
Each chapter builds on earlier research on linguistic citizenship
by illuminating how multilingualism (in both theory and practice)
should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize
what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency.
This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of
multilingualism through the lens of the important notion of
linguistic citizenship. All of the chapters are underpinned by a
theoretical and methodological engagement with linguistic
citizenship as a useful heuristic through which to understand
sociolinguistic processes in late modernity, focusing in particular
on linguistic agency and voices on the margins of our societies.
The authors take stock of conservative, liberal, progressive and
radical social transformations in democracies in the north and
south, and consider the implications for multilingualism as a
resource, as a way of life and as a feature of identity politics.
Each chapter builds on earlier research on linguistic citizenship
by illuminating how multilingualism (in both theory and practice)
should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize
what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency.
This volume showcases ten years of research on language, gender and
sexuality informed by queer theory. In line with a queer dislike
for any normalizing discourse and practice, the book gives a
multi-faceted set of applications of queer theoretical ideas to
linguistic analysis. The chapters that open the book engage with
theoretical debates about identity and desire, and the
relationships between these concepts. The following contributions
offer linguistic precision to two key areas of queer theoretical
interest, namely the critique of heteronormativity and the
deconstruction of the gender binary. The final chapters pick up on
some of the thematic threads of the book, but locate them within
recent developments in the study of language and space. With
examples from a variety of sociopolitical contexts - Denmark,
Greece, Serbia, Sweden, South Africa, USA - and discursive sites -
phrasebooks, school interactions, literary texts, as well as online
dating sites and chats - the book gives a critical overview of how
gender, sexuality and power can be queered through linguistic
analysis.
This book presents an exploration of the relationship between
language ideologies and media discourse, together with the methods
and techniques required for the analysis of this relationship. The
study of language ideologies has become a key theme in
sociolinguistics over the past decade. It is the study of the
relationship between representations of language, on the one hand,
and broader aesthetic, economic, moral and political concerns, on
the other. Research into the particular role played by media
discourse in the construction, reproduction and contestation of
such ideologies has been widely scattered - this book brings
together this emerging field. It considers how, in an era of global
communication technologies, the media - by which we understand the
press, radio, television, cinema, the internet and multimodal
gaming - help to disseminate preferred uses of, and ideas about,
language. The book is tightly focussed on the relationship between
language ideologies and media discourse, together with the methods
and techniques required for the analysis of that relationship. It
also places emphasis on television and new-media texts,
incorporating and expanding upon recent theoretical insights into
visual communication and multimodal discourse analysis.
International in scope, this book will also be of interest to
students from a wide range of fields including linguistics
(particularly sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology), modern
languages, education, media studies, communication studies and
cultural theory. "The Advances in Sociolinguistics" series seeks to
provide a snapshot of the current diversity of the field of
sociolinguistics and the blurring of the boundaries between
sociolinguistics and other domains of study concerned with the role
of language in society.
This volume showcases ten years of research on language, gender and
sexuality informed by queer theory. In line with a queer dislike
for any normalizing discourse and practice, the book gives a
multi-faceted set of applications of queer theoretical ideas to
linguistic analysis. The chapters that open the book engage with
theoretical debates about identity and desire, and the
relationships between these concepts. The following contributions
offer linguistic precision to two key areas of queer theoretical
interest, namely the critique of heteronormativity and the
deconstruction of the gender binary. The final chapters pick up on
some of the thematic threads of the book, but locate them within
recent developments in the study of language and space. With
examples from a variety of sociopolitical contexts - Denmark,
Greece, Serbia, Sweden, South Africa, USA - and discursive sites -
phrasebooks, school interactions, literary texts, as well as online
dating sites and chats - the book gives a critical overview of how
gender, sexuality and power can be queered through linguistic
analysis.
The study of language ideologies has become a key theme in
sociolinguistics over the past decade. It is the study of the
relationship between representations of language, on the one hand,
and broader aesthetic, economic, moral and political concerns, on
the other. Research into the particular role played by media
discourse in the construction, reproduction and contestation of
such ideologies has been widely scattered - this book brings
together this emerging field. It considers how, in an era of global
communication technologies, the media - by which we understand the
press, radio, television, cinema, the internet and multimodal
gaming - help to disseminate preferred uses of, and ideas about,
language. The book is tightly focussed on the relationship between
language ideologies and media discourse, together with the methods
and techniques required for the analysis of that relationship. It
also places emphasis on television and new-media texts,
incorporating and expanding upon recent theoretical insights into
visual communication and multimodal discourse analysis.
International in scope, this book will also be of interest to
students from a wide range of fields including linguistics
(particularly sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology), modern
languages, education, media studies, communication studies and
cultural theory.>
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