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Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture
No full textHow 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
Introduction
No full textThis chapter introduces the collection of chapters in this book, focusing on defining two central concepts, masculinity and queer, as well as examining the relationship between the two. The chapter provides a critical overview of research at the intersection of masculinity studies and queer theory and then gives an outline of the remaining 12 chapters
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
No full textThe ever-encroaching discourse of online hate has, to date, only been partially mapped, and available studies have mostly focused on forms of
misogynous attacks in the male-dominated online tech and gamer communities or against feminist activists (Potts 2015; Hardaker and McGlashan 2016).
Additionally, there seems to be a tendency to forget that ongoing, low-level hate speech is far more common than the dramatically violent hate crimes that
capture public imagination. Whether by investigating the ripple effect triggered by a single controversial tweet, the manipulation of gender ideologies in ethnic radio discourse, or the re-semiotization of the ‘city’ as a nurturing space for Jihadist hate narratives, this book intends to address, from a wide and comprehensive multimodal perspective, the prevailing gaps in research literature and the dire need to contend with rampant vitriolic discourses today
‘Miss Man’: Does the Gendered Body Matter?
No full textThis book draws together chapters that contain original interdisciplinary
research and offer a range of critical perspectives on some linguistic and
semiotic understandings of gender in the context of recent contrasting
debates about gender non-conforming people, including different ways of
‘doing’ masculinit
TransAzioni linguistiche: le lingue e il genere negato
Full text linkThe study of non-binary gender individuals has become a recurring and very fashionable topic within sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and critical discourse analysis. Despite the different methodological approaches, all studies seem to aptly underline the importance of two key-concepts: ideology and negotiation practices. Scholars acknowledge that concepts such as sexuality and gender are, indeed, largely informed by the crucial interrelation of power and ideology. Many transgender and gender variant people face problems in daily life because of the lack of negotiation practices and subsequent human rights recognition via European legal procedures. Trans people’s legal documents, for instance, do not reflect their true ‘self’ and this is still today a repeated source of ‘authorised’ harassment based on ideology. However, gender recognition goes beyond being an administrative act: it is vital for many trans people to be able to participate in society and live a life of dignity and respect. This paper, aiming to support trans rights from a translational view point, presents the analysis of a wide multilingual corpus which comprises a series of EU legal recommendations (in several European languages) adopted by the European Parliament to fully endorse gender equality and to undertake the creation of guidelines for gender-neutral language in each of its official languages. Despite the EU’s incredible efforts, the corpus shows that in some European languages, ideology and the total lack of common linguistic practices to be adopted by translators, transgender and gender variant people’s human rights are still in danger
Editorial note to Self-Narratives in Organizations: Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Experiences
No full textFat chance! Digital Critical Discourse Studies on Discrimination against fat people
No full textThis Chapter examines the manner in which online twitter prosumers discursively assemble and unite around the theme of ‘fat female bodies’ and, by exploiting the affiliation devices available on social networking systems, either shame or praise those who are considered (or who consider themselves to be) overweight.
Over a five-year timespan, the authors investigate a number of discursive instantiations reflecting highly critical attitudes towards ‘fat’ individuals/bodies in two geographically adjacent contexts, specifically the UK and France. As Balirano and Hughes illustrate, negative fat-shaming discourses are inevitably linked to other significant facets present in both Anglo and Francophone contemporary cultures such as hatred expressed against minority groups and in particular against women and race. The interconnection of lesser represented social identities becomes a common discursive tool through which hate is propagated, drawing its strength from previously well-trodden hate-based tropes in order to easily reach and broaden the catchment area of online fat shaming
Homing in on Hate: critical discourse studies of hate speech, discrimination and inequality in the digital age.
No full textA shared definition of 'hate speech online' is in a constant flux due to the supranational character of the internet, the slippery nature of online harassment, and the porous relationship between actual violence and discriminatory speech. Besides the hateful messages propagated across social networking platforms and micro-blogging sites, the recent rise of live-streamed hate has also captured public attention forcing governments and internet providers to contend with the issue of how to prevent and punish such online activities.
As the contributors highlight throughout this volume, the term 'hate' itself is extremely difficult to define, stemming as it does from the extremes of socio-psychopathic impulses, an inability to regulate emotions adequately, or merely from a lack of empathy. In some cases the denigrators do not even hate their victims, they are merely pliable individuals who feel the need to emulate the sentiments of a strong cohort of denigrators in order to gain 'insider' status. Such individuals, however, are no less to blame than the hate mongers themselves, since they actively contribute to an echo chamber which serves to amplify and reinforce the hatred deployed. Whether they truly detest their targets or merely emulate the apparently dominant group, the aim of haters, be they online or offline, is to relegate the victims to a generic category of 'others', and in hate speech the other is always the enemy. The differences between the 'us' belonging to the dominant grouping, and the 'them' banished to the out-group are magnified in hate speech: the insiders are safe, legitimate, normal and rational, the outsiders are dangerous, different, threatening and antagonistic.
Although the focus of this volume concerns, in the main, the digital environment, the editors and contributors are all well aware that 'hate speech online' does not occur in a virtual vacuum, its effects are dramatically real for those individuals who are on the receiving end. Cyberbullying and hate speech impinge upon the lives of individuals from different social, economic, professional and psychological backgrounds, and increase the sense of fear and vulnerability of entire communities. The ever-encroaching discourse of online hate has, to date, only been partially mapped, and available studies have mostly focused on forms of misogynous attacks in the male-dominated online tech and gamer communities or against feminist activists. Additionally, there seems to be a tendency to forget that ongoing low-level hate speech is far more common than the dramatically violent hate crimes that capture public imagination.
Whether by investigating the ripple effect triggered by a single controversial tweet, the manipulation of gender ideologies in ethnic radio discourse, or the re-semiotization of the 'city' as a nurturing space for Jihadist hate narratives, this book intends to address, from a wide and comprehensive multimodal perspective, the prevailing gaps in research literature and the dire need to contend with rampant vitriolic discourses today
"Identity and the Linguistic Construction of Space and Place in Diasporic Films: the DesiCorpus"
No full text“‘You’re only as good as your last tweet...’: Academic Self-Branding and Knowledge Dissemination”
No full textAcademic Discourse; mediatization of knowledge dissemination; academic branding practices;
Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysi
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