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“The Right Story”: Discursive Strategies in Gender-Affirming Healthcare Access
Full text linkDespite strides towards a less pathological and diagnostic-centered approach to transgender healthcare, many policies continue to present barriers in accessing gender-affirming medical support that may provide individuals with greater ease in their embodiment. Research on transgender speakers’ linguistic practices in healthcare interactions has shown that practitioners’ prerequisites for granting access to this kind of care remain largely based on criteria presented in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This practice of evaluation has led to an impression within trans communities that accessing gender-affirming care is a test, where patients must “do” their gender or present their identity in a particular way. Meeting this expectation may feel especially imperative and dehumanizing for non-binary transgender people, as individuals who do not identify as either, or exclusively, masculine or feminine. Presenting a gender positionality outside of the binary has historically meant losing access to care, and as a result, non-binary patients often find themselves using different language to describe their experience than they would in other contexts, simply to gain access to much-needed care. As an intervention in the inequity of doctor-patient communication in this setting, this dissertation considers the metalinguistic (“talk about talk”) observations of non-binary people regarding their gender-affirming healthcare interactions in Ontario. Rather than considering non-binary patients’ practices as straightforward acts of capitulation to medical expectations, their performances in these high-risk interactions are a means to contest their marginal status within the healthcare system. Participant-collaborators express numerous strategies to simplify or obscure their non-binary identities in their pursuit of care, such as the flexible use of identity labels, vocal pitch modulation, the intensification and historicization of experiences of suffering related to gender identity, and avoiding asking questions about their care so as not to compromise doctors’ impressions of their certainty about medical transition. This dissertation thus shows how linguistic performances are a crucial part of the gender-affirming care process; in other words, whether patients get the access that they need often depends not just on what they say, but how they say it, and what they strategically omit.Ph.D
Contextualizing the rise of vernacular Arabic in globalized North Africa
No full textThis work was funded by “Variación diastrática en las variedades habladas del árabe vernáculo de Marruecos”. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Agencia Estatal de Investigación & European fund for
Regional Development (Award no. FFI2017-87533-P) and “Arabic Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology”, CSIC (Award no. LINKB20056).Peer reviewe
Contextualizing the rise of vernacular Arabic in globalized North Africa
No full textCette introduction au numéro spécial de IJSL, co-édité par les mêmes auteurs, explique l’orientation de celui-ci par rapport aux autres études en dialectologie et sociolinguistique de l’arabe, ainsi qu’en anthropologie linguistique et des médias. Dans la première section, l’importance de dédier un ouvrage aux vernaculaires arabes maghrébins à partir de données empiriques est clarifiée sur la base des récents événements politiques ayant intéressé la région et de la nécessité de combler un vide dans l’étude des représentations et idéologies métalinguistiques et des relations de pouvoir entre les variétés vernaculaires (ou entre celles-ci et l’arabe standard). Dans la deuxième section, le rôle joué historiquement par ces variétés dans les discours identitaires de leurs locuteurs et dans les politiques des pays maghrébins est expliqué. La troisième et quatrième sections présentent respectivement un état de l’art des études en dialectologie et en sociolinguistique maghrébine (avec une focalisation sur les catégorisations faites par les dialectologues, les différentes approches adoptées par les sociolinguistes et l’importance de l’état-nation) et de celles sur la médiatisation et la marchandisation des variétés vernaculaires d’arabe maghrébin. Finalement, dans la cinquième section, les quatre thèmes principaux de l’ouvrage sont illustrés avec les contributions qui font référence à chacun d’eux
Dialect leveling, maintenance and urban identity in Morocco Fessi immigrants in Casablanca
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Introduction: Critical Perspectives and New Trends in Arabic Sociolinguistics
No full textThis special issue of Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics (TWPL), “Critical perspectives and new trends in Arabic sociolinguistics,” features research presented at the international workshop Arabic Sociolinguistics: New Trends and Perspectives, held virtually at the University of Toronto on November 23, 2024. The workshop brought together junior and senior scholars in Arabic sociolinguistics to foster transnational and cross-generational dialogue, amplify underrepresented voices, and highlight innovative methodological and theoretical approaches, including quantitative, qualitative, and experimental research. Reflecting the theme of the special issue, the selected papers critically engage with current sociolinguistic questions, addressing variation, language ideology, identity, and the social functions of Arabic varieties in diverse contexts. Of the eight contributions presented at the workshop, four are included in this special issue, exemplifying the field’s breadth, rigor, and evolving directions
Dialect contact and change in the Arabic feminine ending morpheme
No full textThe unbound feminine ending for nouns and adjectives in Arabic has two main forms: an a-type vowel and an e-type vowel. We examine processes of language change vis-à-vis this morphophonemic variable in four dialects, two in the Levant and two in the Arabian Peninsula. We show that somewhat similar processes occur across these dialects, but also that each individual dialect exhibits its own rate of change and that in each dialect the change is at a different stage in its development. Juxtaposing these four case studies together enables us to formulate generalizations regarding variation and change in Arabic, as well as standardization and koinéization, without resorting to over-generalizations. When we attempt to generalize about variation and change in Arabic dialects, we must do so on the basis of this kind of data. We caution against making generalizations that are too broad, of the type “Arabic vernaculars are changing in such-and-such a direction.” Rather, different dialect clusters exhibit different trajectories, which we can only discern upon examining specific features in individual dialects, as we have done here. In the spirit of Eckert (1989, 2000), we aim to theorize about variation and change at a higher analytical node, where we examine community-specific scenarios of interaction between social factors, which may be shared by some groups of dialects but not others
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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