In commenting on the articles in this special issue, I focus on a sociolinguistics of gender and sexual stereotyping through a transnational perspective. Defining stereotypes as distillations of types of persons and practices expressive of ideological meanings and integral to power relations, a sociolinguistics study of stereotyping is proposed as encompassing a number of dimensions: the constitutiveness of language, discourse and genre; flatness and roundedness of stereotypes; negative and positive social meanings; enduring and shifting stereotypes; identity entanglements; power(s) of stereotyping; and local and translocal aspects. The multifaceted dimensions emerge out of a transnational perspective of studies from a variety East Asian contexts. Such a perspective surfaces shared resonances of heteropatriarchy across these contexts as well as distinctive articulations of hegemony and change in particular situations.

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性别/性别刻板印象的社会语言学：跨国视角

在评论本期特刊的文章时，我重点关注跨国视角下的性别和性别刻板印象的社会语言学。将刻板​​印象定义为表达意识形态意义和权力关系不可或缺的类型的人和实践的提炼，提出了对刻板印象的社会语言学研究，包括多个维度：语言、话语和体裁的构成性；刻板印象的平坦度和圆润度；消极和积极的社会意义；持久和不断变化的刻板印象；身份纠葛；刻板印象的权力；以及地方和跨地方方面。多方面的维度是从各种东亚背景下的跨国研究视角中出现的。