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Order and turbulence in a Swedish bathroom Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Henning Årman
‘Where are all the queers at the school?! I want to hug you’. Thus begins a conversation scrawled on the door to a Swedish high school’s student bathroom that will spark a debate among students on whether the word ‘queer’ should be considered a slur. In dialogue with work on linguistic citizenship and graffiti as a semiotic mode, this article analyses different stages of the unfolding debate. The analytical
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Putting gender on the agenda in Rio de Janeiro Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Naomi Orton,Liana De Andrade Biar
Considerable scholarly attention has been devoted to the investigation of language and gendered performances in the workplace, particularly in the Global North. However, as yet few studies have examined such dynamics in the context of contemporary social movements. Drawing on (auto)ethnographic observations and audio recordings, this article takes a critical look at the negotiation of meaning in public
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Going South and zooming into what also matters in language, gender and sexuality Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Ana Cristina Ostermann
This essay contributes to the ‘Thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research’ on the theme of ‘Place’ by joining other colleagues under two threads: ‘going South’ and ‘going micro’. Under ‘going South’, I speak from my trajectory and place as a Brazilian scholar to highlight the geopolitical importance of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) and the journal
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Gender in World Englishes edited by Tobias Bernaisch (2021) Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Hang Su
Gender in World Englishes edited by Tobias Bernaisch (2021) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 254 pp.
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‘A pair of buttocks’ that everybody hates Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Busi Makoni
This article explores radical rudeness, a resistance strategy of deliberate rudeness to disrupt normative structures. Using the Uganda activist Dr Stella Nyanzi as a case study, I examine how women experiencing extreme structural marginalisation and systemic violence use radical rudeness in a nonlinguistic form (defiant disrobing) to speak back to power. Drawing from Black feminist theories of rage
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Intersections of class, race and place Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Pia Pichler
This essay presents an analysis of place references in the spontaneous talk of young Londoners from a range of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. These place references function as ‘cultural concepts’ (Silverstein 2004) which index multilayered meanings well beyond their denotations, constituting important resources for speakers’ local and supralocal positionings. The essay argues that ‘place’ is
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Lingüística se escribe con A: La perspectiva de género en las ideas sobre el lenguaje Teresa Moure (2021) Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Daniel Amarelo
Lingüística se escribe con A: La perspectiva de género en las ideas sobre el lenguaje Teresa Moure (2021) Madrid: Catarata, 349 pp.
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Thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Kira Hall,Rodrigo Borba,Mie Hiramoto
This thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research, launched in anticipation of the thirtieth anniversary of the 1992 Berkeley Women and Language Conference, showcases essays by luminaries who presented papers at the conference as well as allied scholars who have taken the field in new directions. Revitalising a tradition set out by the First Berkeley Women and Language Conference
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Speech strategy sequencing in personal ads Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Sara L. Zahler
Traditional personal advertisements often follow an ‘X seeks Y for Z’ format. The current study analyses the presence of these different components of personal ads (referred to as speech strategies) and their sequencing across four socio-sexual groups (women seeking women, women seeking men, men seeking women and men seeking men) and distinct types of relationships desired (romantic, sexual and other)
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How does water talk, and other hopeful questions about and beyond gender and language Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Bonnie S. McElhinny
The inaugural issue of Gender and Language focused on unanswered questions and unquestioned assumptions. This essay revisits these questions, thinking about next steps not only for the field, but also for the larger feminist, anti-racist, anticolonial world our work aims to build. In particular, I consider two questions with impacts for thinking about how to deepen the political impact of our own work
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Language and gender in North Africa Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Fatima Sadiqi
This essay investigates and contextualises the emergence and evolution of the discipline of ‘Language and Gender’ in North Africa in an attempt to remedy the underrepresentation of this region in scholarship. I ground this essay in my experiences with Language and Gender in Morocco and the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), both of which were central in shaping my academic journey
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Find that thing that weighs more than drugs Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Amiena Peck
Creating a space for bodies to count as corporeal linguistic landscapes or ‘skinscapes’ is an avenue that speaks to the growing interest of bodies-in-place and placemaking in the physical landscape. In this essay, I extend skinscapes and placemaking to that of the digital space, specifically Amiena Inspired, my YouTube channel. A frank autoethnography detailing my formative drug abuse, postnatal depression
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Intersections of race and gender in sexual assault trials Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Susan Ehrlich
This essay traces the development of intersectionality theory within the field of language and gender in relation to research on the language of rape trials. In early work on the topic, I used Judith Butler’s notion of the ‘rigid regulatory frame’ to understand the cultural intelligibility of certain kinds of rape victims in the legal system and the unintelligibility of others. But the inequities that
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Beyond the cis gays’ cis gaze Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Lal Zimman
Trans and other nonnormatively gendered subjectivities served a foundational role in queer linguistics, but it is only recently that a wave of trans researchers have begun to carve out distinctively trans approaches to the study of language. This commentary explores the question of why this shift has taken so long and how certain disciplinary norms have made linguistics a less-than-attractive home
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Gender identity and nonbinary pronoun use Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Iman Sheydaei
This study contributes to the emerging literature on gender identity and pronoun use by exploring strategies to refer to unknown human referents. In an online survey involving mainly a university population aged 29 and below, participants were first asked to pick a potential roommate from two fictional characters with gender-ambiguous names and write short answers explaining their choice. Secondly
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Choosing love, marriage and the traditional role Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Camila Montiel McCann
Stereotypes of white women have historically limited their identities to that of wife and mother. Though restrictive, this type of femininity has been mobilised to create hierarchies of womanhood that legitimate this form and subordinate others. However, social change since the feminist second wave has seen the renegotiation of women’s position, and contemporary antiracist and LGBTQIA+ discourse has
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displacement of race in language and gender studies Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Mary Bucholtz,Deandre Miles-hercules
As a collaboration between the two authors, this essay first addresses each author’s individual perspective on language and gender studies, particularly as it has taken shape in the US context, and then offers a jointly developed argument regarding the field’s history and trajectory. We write from the respective standpoints of our lived experiences within and beyond the academy. Mary is a white cis
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Fuck off! recasting queer anger for a politics of (self-)discomfort Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Tommaso M. Milani
While anger is often treated as a ‘dirty’ feeling or a pathology, queer anger holds the potential for a renewed politics of (self-)discomfort. I draw upon queer theory in order to strategically highlight that anger is what constitutes queer both as a homophobic slur and as a reclaimed label of self-identification. Put differently, it is impossible to understand how ‘queer’ works pragmatically without
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Chicana voices, las rucas rebeldes Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 María Dolores Gonzales
This tribute highlights the scholarly work of Chicana sociolinguist D. Letticia Galindo (1952–1998), whose research throughout her academic career focused on challenging biased and restricted interpretations of Chicanas’ linguistic self-expression and innovation. Letticia’s studies of members of subcultures surpass the stereotypic image of Chicanas’ language use, stressing that when women break the
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Gender Approaches in the Translation Classroom: Training the Doers edited by Marcella De Marco and Piero Toto (2019) Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Xinxin Wu
Gender Approaches in the Translation Classroom: Training the Doers edited by Marcella De Marco and Piero Toto (2019) Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 200 pp.
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Navigating Trans*+ and Complex Gender Identities Edited by Jamison Green, Rhea Ashley Hoskin, Cris Mayo and sj Miller (2020) Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Evan Hazenberg
Navigating Trans*+ and Complex Gender Identities Edited by Jamison Green, Rhea Ashley Hoskin, Cris Mayo and sj Miller (2020) New York: Bloomsbury, 204 pp.
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Thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Kira Hall,Rodrigo Borba,Mie Hiramoto
This thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research, launched in anticipation of the thirtieth anniversary of the 1992 Berkeley Women and Language Conference, showcases essays by luminaries who presented papers at the conference as well as allied scholars who have taken the field in new directions. Revitalising a tradition set out by the First Berkeley Women and Language Conference
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Talk labour and doing ‘being neoliberal mother’ Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-07-13 Elinor Ochs,Tamar Kremer-Sadlik
This essay considers the gendered work of childrearing through Harvey Sacks’ (1992) concept of doing ‘being ordinary’. While doing ‘being ordinary’ under-girds social order, what constitutes ‘ordinary’ changes over time. Neoliberalism ushered in middle-class childrearing ideologies that encourage parents to share ever more intensive responsibilities; yet, mothers ordinarily continue to assume the lion’s
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Three decades in the field of gender and language Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-07-13 Deborah Tannen
This essay provides an account of one scholar’s thirty-five-year immersion in language and gender research. I included a chapter on conversations between women and men in That’s Not What I Meant!, my first book for general audiences, as part of an overview of interactional sociolinguistics. Disproportionate interest in that chapter led me to write You Just Don’t Understand, which I assumed would be
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Gender and the Third Wave of variation study Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-07-13 Penelope Eckert
In the past thirty years, the study of sociolinguistic variation has moved its focus ‘inside’ the speaker – from macrosocial categories to local categories, to the personae that inhabit categories and to the stylistic practice in which personae entangle themselves in the social landscape. This latter stage has commonly been called the Third Wave and is indeed inspired by third wave feminism, as the
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call for ethnographic investigation of justice and care in language and gender research Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-07-13 Marjorie Harness Goodwin
This paper argues for an ethnographic approach to the study of principles of justice and care in language and gender research. My focus is on language practices in two basic human socialites: children’s peer groups and the family. By examining interactions in the everyday lives of peers and in families, the creativity with which humans orchestrate their everyday activities becomes visible. I problematise
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Guiding light in discourse studies Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-07-13 Heidi E. Hamilton
This tribute characterises the scholarly life of interactional sociolinguist Deborah Schiffrin (1951–2017), locating her contribution to the 1992 Berkeley Women and Language Conference (‘Gender displays among family, friends, and neighbors: taking the role of another’) within her lifelong exploration of the intricate interrelated workings of language, identity and the world. Debby’s deep understanding
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Thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-07-13 Kira Hall,Rodrigo Borba,Mie Hiramoto
This thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research, launched in anticipation of the thirtieth anniversary of the 1992 Berkeley Women and Language Conference, showcases essays by luminaries who presented papers at the conference as well as allied scholars who have taken the field in new directions. Revitalising a tradition set out by the First Berkeley Women and Language Conference
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‘It is this ignorance we have to fight’ Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-07-13 Stamatina Katsiveli
Growing legal LGBTQI+ representation in Greece is systematically targeted by Greek homophobic and transphobic nationalism, commonly articulated in public by (far) rightwing politicians and church representatives. The present article brings into attention a more subtle way in which discriminatory discourses make their way into the public sphere, disguised behind progressive narratives of inclusivity
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Language, gender and sexuality in 2020 Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-07-13 Jaspal Naveel Singh
The Global South is a postcolonial imagined community that bears the potential to imagine powerful south-south solidarity between the struggles for decoloniality of diverse populations across the world. To prepare our field’s pan-global future, this year-in-review overrepresents literature on gender, sexuality and language from/on the Global South. This decolonial move aims to notice and promote southern
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Japanese language and gender research Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-07-13 Shigeko Okamoto
In the past thirty years, major contributions from Japanese language and gender studies have provided necessary insights from the perspective of a non-European language. Future research will demand ever broader approaches – in particular, I call for investigations of the sociolinguistic life of understudied speakers, such as regional Japanese speakers, to examine how they understand linguistic gender
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Counterlanguage powermoves in African American women’s language practice Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-07-13 Marcyliena H. Morgan
This essay considers some of the insight we have gathered about language, feminism, racism and power. In many respects, it celebrates the linguistic power of the many theories about how Black women navigate intersectionality where racism and sexism intermingle, suggesting that our analyses should always recognise that a lethal combination of factors are in play. Black women, in particular, actively
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Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire Brian James Baer (2021) Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-07-13 Chenchen Wang
Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire Brian James Baer (2021) London and New York: Routledge, 227 pp.
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The Language of Feminine Beauty in Russian and Japanese Societies Natalia Konstantinovskaia (2020) Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-07-13 Judit Kroo
The Language of Feminine Beauty in Russian and Japanese Societies Natalia Konstantinovskaia (2020) London: Palgrave Macmillan, 219 pp.
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Raucous feminisms in neoliberal times Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Maeve Eberhardt
There is no shortage of media representations that reinforce the neoliberal order, emphasise individual freedom and self-regulation and downplay structural inequities and systemic oppression. The current paper analyses an alternative representation that works to dismantle the dominant social order. I interrogate the disruptive potential of the ‘unruly woman’ on Broad City by exploring two discursive
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Thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Kira Hall,Rodrigo Borba,Mie Hiramoto
This thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research, launched in anticipation of the thirtieth anniversary of the 1992 Berkeley Women and Language Conference, showcases essays by luminaries who presented papers at the conference as well as allied scholars who have taken the field in new directions. Revitalising a tradition set out by the First Berkeley Women and Language Conference
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politics of misogyny and the misogyny of politics Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Robin Tolmach Lakoff
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politics of difference in twenty-first century America Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Alice F. Freed
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‘Where all my bad girls at?’ Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Joyhanna Yoo Garza
This article examines the polyvalence of racial(ised) representations in K-pop performances. The analysis of K-pop star CL’s (2013) song and video ‘Nappeun gijibae’ (‘The bad girl’) demonstrates how the artist projects an assertive femininity by embodying and localising the Bad Bitch: a sexually agentive figure of womanhood from US hip hop. CL’s use of African American English and conventionalised
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Gender and the discursive authority of far right politics Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Susan Gal
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Language, Gender, and Sexuality: An Introduction Scott F. Kiesling (2019) Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Vincent Pak
Language, Gender, and Sexuality: An Introduction Scott F. Kiesling (2019) New York: Routledge, 188 pp.
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Gender, Language and Ideology: A Genealogy of Japanese Women’s Language Momoko Nakamura (2014) Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Hannah E. Dahlberg-Dodd
Gender, Language and Ideology: A Genealogy of Japanese Women’s Language Momoko Nakamura (2014) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 253 pp.
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Hope in a Time of Crisis Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Mie Hiramoto,Rodrigo Borba,Kira Hall
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From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender, and Gay Male Subcultures Rusty Barrett (2017) Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Maureen Kosse
From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender, and Gay Male Subcultures Rusty Barrett (2017) New York: Oxford University Press, 268 pp.
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Language, gender and sexuality in 2019 Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Jeremy Calder
In recent years, the study of language, gender and sexuality has become increasingly global, multiracial, intersectional, crosslinguistic and queer- and trans-inclusive. The year 2019 continued this trajectory with a wave of research interrogating normativities, both among the speakers under analysis and among the researchers doing the analysing. While the analysis of linguistic practice has allowed
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Language, Gender and Parenthood Online: Negotiating Motherhood in Mumsnet Talk Jai Mackenzie (2019) Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Laura Teichert
Language, Gender and Parenthood Online: Negotiating Motherhood in Mumsnet Talk Jai Mackenzie (2019) New York: Routledge, 124 pp.
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Language, gender and sexuality in Japanese popular media Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2020-09-02 Momoko Nakamura
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Masculinity, race and national identity Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2020-09-02 Satoko Suzuki
Language ideologies have been of central concern to the study of Japanese language, gender and society. Many scholars have researched ideologies surrounding representations of Japanese women’s speech; however, investigations of representations of men’s speech have been limited. This study contributes to filling this gap through the analysis of non-Japanese male characters found in contemporary Japanese
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Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual: Narrative Resources in the Negotiation of Identities by Holly Cashman (2018) Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2020-08-18 Douglas Sanque
Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual: Narrative Resources in the Negotiation of Identities Holly Cashman (2018) New York: Routledge, 205 pp.
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Rewriting Language: How Literary Texts Can Promote Inclusive Language Use by Christiane Luck (2020) Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2020-08-14 Donna L. Lillian
Rewriting Language: How Literary Texts Can Promote Inclusive Language Use Christiane Luck (2020) London: UCL Press, 204 pp.
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Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality: A Student Guide Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2020-06-18 Jingna Qiu
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Gender and endangered languages: Intersections Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2020-02-27 Jocelyn Ahlers
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Feminist refusal meets enmity Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2020-02-25 Rodrigo Borba, Kira Hall, Mie Hiramoto
Editorial. Social media has facilitated the rise of a new transnational feminism that refuses to accept silence surrounding violence against women. Often associated with the #MeToo movement, this form of feminist refusal continues to evolve as small-scale grassroots movements are transformed into global icons through the internet’s participatory power.
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Creation of femininity in Japanese televised “beauty ads”: Traditional values, kawaii cuteness, and a dash of feminism Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2020-01-17 Natalia Konstantinovskaia
Advertising is a powerful tool that encapsulates and reinforces gender ideologies through the repeated presentation of stereotyped visions of femininity. In response to societal change, however, advertising has recently begun to incorporate postfeminist ideals of ‘power femininity’ alongside traditional gender stereotypes (Lazar 2014). In Japan, this duality is further complicated by the dominant spread
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The formation of a sociolinguistic style in translation: cool and informal non-Japanese masculinity Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2020-01-17 Momoko Nakamura
This paper illustrates the powerful role of translation in creating a sociolinguistic style. Through a quantitative survey of Japanese native speakers and a qualitative analysis of translated speech in an imported TV show and its Japanese parody, the study shows that Japanese translation practices have invented and preserved a widely recognised Japanese style associated with non-Japanese men. The study
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Contesting and advocating gender ideologies: an analysis of sararīman (salaried men) characters’ hegemonic masculinities in a Japanese TV drama Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2020-01-17 Junko Saito
Previous scholars have identified sarar?man (salaried men), who prioritise work over family, as the ideal of hegemonic masculinity in Japan. This study focuses on sarar?man characters’ language use in the workplace as depicted in the 2015 Japanese TV drama Age Harassment. Employing the concepts of stance and hegemonic masculinities, the study demonstrates that, in this mediatised representation, the
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Identity and category construction of the sengyōshufu (‘househusband’) in Japanese TV shows: a gendered division of labour in transition Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2020-01-17 Chie Fukuda
This study illustrates the discursive construction of the househusband in Japanese TV shows as a situated gender practice. Although the category of sengy?shufu ‘househusband’ has existed since at least the 1980s in Japan, the dominance of the ideology of ‘salaryman masculinity’ has ensured its marginalisation. The recent emergence of the househusband as a topic in mainstream media discourse reflects
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Nerdy girls talking gross: popular perceptions on the quality, role and influence of language in manga Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2020-01-17 Giancarla Unser-Schutz
This article examines how people view language use in manga (Japanese comic books and graphic novels) through an analysis of posts on a Japanese online bulletin board system. The analysis uncovers three central assumptions regarding texts understood as manga: they lack linguistic sophistication; their linguistic authenticity is problematic; and they negatively impact real-world speech. In the posts
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Entanglement and feminist agency in picture books Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2019-12-17 Hadar Netz,Ron Kuzar
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Maidens, flirts and seducers: the objectification of women’s bodies in the musical works of Chiquinha Gonzaga Gender and Language (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2019-12-14 Eliane Regina Crestani Tortola,Larissa Michelle Lara