Language And Mediated Masculinities

Author : Robert Lawson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190081041

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From television shows to the manosphere, and from alt-right communities to fatherhood forums, debates about masculinity have come to dominate the media landscape. What does it mean to be a man in contemporary society? How is masculinity constituted in different media spaces? This growing cultural tension around masculinities has been discussed and analyzed both for general audiences and in burgeoning academic scholarship. What has been typically overlooked, however, is the role that language plays in these mediated performances of masculinity. In Language and Mediated Masculinities, Robert Lawson draws on data from newspapers, social media sites, television programs, and online forums to explore language and masculinities across a range of media contexts. The book offers a critical evaluation of the intersection between language, masculinities, and identities in contemporary society and addresses three key questions: How are masculinities constructed, in both public and private spheres, through linguistic and discursive strategies? How does language about masculinity and men affect (and recreate) gender ideologies in different social, political, and historical contexts? What might the language of men tell us about the state of contemporary gender relations in the twenty-first century? Lawson furthers our understanding of how language is implicated in (re)creating gender ideologies and how it shapes contemporary gender relations. Against a cultural backdrop of rising neoliberalism, ethnic nationalism, online radicalization, networked misogyny, and fractious gender relations, this book is an important contribution to charting how language is used to monitor, evaluate, and police masculinities in online and offline spaces.

Author : Robert Lawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 0190081082

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Author : Tommaso M. Milani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317638926

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Language and Masculinities by Tommaso M. Milani Pdf

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.

Author : Paul Baker,Giuseppe Balirano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781349953271

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Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture by Paul Baker,Giuseppe Balirano Pdf

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.

Author : Jennifer Coates
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470702604

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Men Talk by Jennifer Coates Pdf

Men Talk draws on rich conversational material from a wide range of contexts to illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium. Draws on rich conversational material to illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium. Collects data from a wide range of conversations, including garage mechanics on a break, carpenters at the pub after work, and university academics chatting after hours. Focuses on stories, which occur within all-male conversations. Makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the intersection of language and masculinity.

Author : Eric Louis Russell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030704704

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Alpha Masculinity by Eric Louis Russell Pdf

This book examines the linguistic and discursive mechanisms that realize the mythological American Alpha Male. Providing an in-depth dissection of corpora from an online socio-commercial community, a pop-psychology guru, and fictional gay erotica, it unravels the ways language, gender, and hegemony play out in this ideological figure of neopositive, essentialist masculinity. Through a detailed, multi-level analysis, Russell shows how the Alpha figure combines elements of dominance, normativity, and androcentrism and how these forces intersect with neoliberal and pseudoscientific discourses to establish a uniquely hybridized male hegemony, one that is familiar to most, but whose internal mechanisms remain largely unquestioned and unexamined. This book will be of interest to academic scholars in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, cultural studies, and gender and sexualities studies.

Author : Sally Johnson,Ulrike Hanna Meinhof
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0631197680

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Language and Masculinity by Sally Johnson,Ulrike Hanna Meinhof Pdf

Feminist linguistics has come of age. Yet, in more than two decades of research, male speaking patterns have largely been taken for granted. This is the first extensive account of men's language - of male ways of speaking and of language in the construction of masculinity.

Author : Gavin Brookes,Małgorzata Chałupnik
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031384073

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Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health by Gavin Brookes,Małgorzata Chałupnik Pdf

This book brings together a collection of case studies that explore the relationship between health and masculinity. It covers various topics related to health, such as mental health, sexual health, eating disorders and coronavirus, and offers health-based perspectives on issues such as migration and gender identity, as these relate to masculinities. In exploring these themes, this book addresses a wide range of communicative contexts, including online forums, interviews, advertising, sex education materials, migrant integration classes, and suicide notes. This book will appeal to linguists interested in health and gender (particularly masculinities), as well as scholars in fields such as psychology, media studies, cultural studies, and other humanities and social science disciplines with a focus on discourse.

Author : Monika Bednarek
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254665

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Language and Characterisation in Television Series by Monika Bednarek Pdf

This book explores how language is used to create characters in fictional television series. To do so, it draws on multiple case studies from the United States and Australia. Brought together in this book for the first time, these case studies constitute more than the sum of their parts. They highlight different aspects of televisual characterisation and showcase the use of different data, methods, and approaches in its analysis. Uniquely, the book takes a mixed-method approach and will thus not only appeal to corpus linguists but also researchers in sociolinguistics, stylistics, and pragmatics. All corpus linguistic techniques are clearly introduced and explained, and the book is thus accessible to both experienced researchers as well as novice researchers and students. It will be essential reading in linguistics, literature, stylistics, and media/television studies.

Author : Frazer Heritage
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031401848

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Incels and Ideologies by Frazer Heritage Pdf

This book explores how incels use language and other semiotic resources to construct ideologies of gender and race/ethnicity. The author theorises and positions incels' performances of masculinity against a backdrop of broader social sciences and linguistic literature, and discusses some of the limitations of different lenses through which incels have previously been understood, as well some of the ethical issues involved with researching a hostile community. Corpus linguistic methods and netnographic reflections are used to explore how incels construct ideologies about gender, gendered social actors, and race/ethnicity, as well as where these concepts intersect. Taking a post-structuralist critical analysis to this community reveals a number of way ideologies towards different groups based on social identities are linguistically constructed. This book will be relevant to those researching or studying language, gender, and sexuality, sociology, and criminology. Outside of academic applications, it is also written in a way that is accessible to external organisations interested in equality and the prevention of incel-ideology-motivated offline attacks.

Author : B. Knights
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230592629

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Masculinities in Text and Teaching by B. Knights Pdf

In a climate of anxiety about boys and reading, this book addresses the gendering of English Studies, drawing on recent research on masculinity. In drawing together the study of text and narrative with insight into the experience of the classroom, this book will be of value to both teachers and students of English Studies.

Author : Jennifer Domino Rudolph
Publisher : Global Latin/O Americas
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814214312

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Baseball As Mediated Latinidad by Jennifer Domino Rudolph Pdf

Analyzing Latino baseball players, masculinity, and American nationalism, Rudolph sheds new light on the ambivalence of mainstream America towards Latin/o culture.

Author : Frazer Heritage,Charlotte Taylor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781040018989

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Analysing Representation by Frazer Heritage,Charlotte Taylor Pdf

Analysing Representation: A Corpus and Discourse Textbook guides readers through the process of researching how people and phenomena are represented in discourse and introduces them to key tools they can use from corpus linguistics and (critical) discourse analysis. This book takes a step-by-step approach to introducing each concept and includes exercises and further reading to help readers check their progress and prepare for independent research. It is unique in introducing readers to a range of experts representing the full range of work in this area. This book is aimed at final-year undergraduate, taught postgraduate and doctoral level students. It wil also be useful to scholars who are new to combining corpus and discourse methods in investigations of representation.

Author : Rebecca Feasey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748631797

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Masculinity and Popular Television by Rebecca Feasey Pdf

This book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key debates concerning the representation of masculinities in a wide range of popular television genres. The volume looks at the depiction of public masculinity in the soap opera, homosexuality in the situation comedy, the portrayal of fatherhood in prime-time animation, emerging manhood in the supernatural teen text, alternative gender roles in science fiction, male authority in the police series, masculine anxieties in the hospital drama, violence and aggression in sports coverage, ordinariness and emotional connectedness in the reality game show, and domesticity in lifestyle television. Masculinity and Popular Television examines the ways in which masculinities are being constructed, circulated and interrogated in contemporary British and American programming, and considers the ways in which such images can be understood in relation to the 'common sense' model of the hegemonic male that is said to dominate the cultural landscape.

Author : D. Galasinski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230510128

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Men and the Language of Emotions by D. Galasinski Pdf

Men and the Language of Emotions challenges the commonly held association of rationality with masculinity, involving distancing from the language of emotions. Drawing on a study of heterosexual men talking about their life and relationships, he demonstrates that men are capable of speaking of emotions, and in direct and uninhibited ways.