New Insights into Gendered Discursive Practices

New Insights into Gendered Discursive Practices
Author: Antonia Sánchez Macarro
Publisher: Universitat de València
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2015-05-16
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 8437096936

Con un discurso y un enfoque feminista orientado hacia las culturas mediáticas post-feministas, este volumen proporciona un conocimiento vanguardista de los métodos de análisis del discurso y cómo se aplican en el estudio del lenguaje y del género en distintos contextos. Las editoras del volumen, Antonia Sánchez Macarro y Ana Belén Cabrejas Peñuelas, reúnen a destacados analistas del discurso que hablan sobre temas como la construcción de las identidades de género en los (nuevos) medios de comunicación; las auto-representaciones de género y sexo de las jóvenes tanto en Internet como fuera de la red; y el análisis de las prácticas discursivas en el contexto de la educación superior. Este volumen servirá como inestimable herramienta para los investigadores y los estudiantes interesados en el lenguaje, el género y el análisis del discurso.

The Corpus Linguistics Discourse

The Corpus Linguistics Discourse
Author: Anna Čermáková
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2018-12-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027263264

With an ever-growing body of corpus linguistic tools, resources and applications, it becomes increasingly important to reflect critically on the underlying assumptions that corpus linguistics is based on. Focusing on meaning and methods, this book tackles fundamental concepts and approaches that define the discourse of the field. Internationally renowned contributors address topics that range from the history of corpus linguistics to contrastive perspectives between languages, to interpreting patterns in corpora as evidence of both mainstream discourses and individual voices within them. This collection not only adds to our understanding of the fundamentals of corpus linguistics, it also brings innovative meanings to the corpus linguistics discourse. It has been edited in honour of Wolfgang Teubert, who for decades has been a significant voice in this discourse.

Pragmatics of Internet Humour

Pragmatics of Internet Humour
Author: Francisco Yus
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2023-06-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031319028

This book provides a first thorough analysis of internet humour from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective, covering a wide range of discourses that are pervasive online and focusing especially on messaging interactions, social networking sites and memes. Its chapters describe the inferential strategies implemented to turn online coded discourses into meaningful interpretations, which in turn can be devised and manipulated for the sake of humour. Furthermore, and apart from the typical object of pragmatic research (humorous discourses), the book emphasises the importance of the interfaces’ design and of the qualities of the users engaged in humorous interactions (called contextual constraints), additionally highlighting the parallel significance of the various effects, shaped as feelings and emotions, that stem from humorous communication on the internet. In sum, the book delivers a rich and detailed account of humorous internet discourses through dissecting their affordances as a medium, tracking the users’ intentions, and predicting the audiences’ interpretive strategies, with the goal of helping the reader obtain a better understanding of internet humour and its role in today’s online interactions.

Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis

Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis
Author: Lia Litosseliti
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2002-05-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902729769X

Gender and discourse interface in many more epistemological sites than can be represented in one collection. Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis therefore focuses on a principled diversity of key sites within four broad areas: the media, sexuality, education and parenthood. The different chapters together illustrate how taking a discourse perspective facilitates understanding of the complex and subtle ways in which gender is represented, constructed and contested through language. The book engages critically with long-running and on-going debates, but also reflects and develops current understandings of gender, identity and discourse, particularly the shift from 'gender differences' to the discoursal shaping of gender. Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis thus offers not only insights and methodologies of new empirical studies but also careful theorisations, in particular of discourse, text, identity and gender. The collection is a valuable resource for researchers, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates working in the area of gender and discourse.

The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality

The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality
Author: Emanuela Lombardo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2009-06-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1134031122

Adopting a critical perspective, this book explores how the concept of gender equality is ‘stretched and bent’ in different ways according to the intervention of policy actors and assesses the consequences of the processes the policy-framing.

Embodiment and Representations of Beauty

Embodiment and Representations of Beauty
Author: Esther Hernández-Medina
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2024-09-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1837979952

Interrogating beauty's very definition, this volume of Advances in Gender Research explores beauty as an avenue to create alternative knowledge as well as a conduit to engage in critical conversations on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, illness, and fitness.

Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China

Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China
Author: Geng Song
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2013-11-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004264914

In Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China, Geng Song and Derek Hird offer an account of Chinese masculinities in media discourse and everyday life, covering masculinities on television, in lifestyle magazines, in cyberspace, at work, at leisure, and at home. No other work covers the forms and practices of men and masculinities in contemporary China so comprehensively. Through carefully exploring the global, regional and local influences on men and representations of men in postmillennial China, Song and Hird show that Chinese masculinity is anything but monolithic. They reveal a complex, shifting plurality of men and masculinities—from stay-at-home internet geeks to karaoke-singing, relationship-building businessmen—which contest and consolidate “conventional” notions of masculinity in multiple ways.

Gendered Discourses

Gendered Discourses
Author: J. Sunderland
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2004-03-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0230505589

This advanced textbook critically reviews a range of theoretical and empirical work on gendered discourses, and explores how gendered discourses can be identified, described and named. It also examines the actual workings of discourses in terms of construction and their potential to 'damage'. For upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in discourse analysis, gender studies, social psychology and media studies.

Analyzing Digital Discourse

Analyzing Digital Discourse
Author: Patricia Bou-Franch
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2018-09-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3319926632

This innovative edited collection presents new insights into emerging debates around digital communication practices. It brings together research by leading international experts to examine methods and approaches, multimodality, face and identity, across five thematically organised sections. Its contributors revise current paradigms in view of past, present, and future research and analyse how users deploy the wealth of multimodal resources afforded by digital technologies to undertake tasks and to enact identity. In its concluding section it identifies the ideologies that underpin the construction of digital texts in the social world. This important contribution to digital discourse studies will have interdisciplinary appeal across the fields of linguistics, socio-linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, gender studies, multimodality, media and communication studies.