Language, gender and sexual identity : poststructuralist perspectives /

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This book makes an innovative contribution to the relatively young field of Queer Linguistics. Subscribing to a poststructuralist framework, it presents a critical, deconstructionist perspective on the discursive construction of heteronormativity and gender binarism from a linguistic point of view....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Motschenbacher, Heiko
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Series:Impact, studies in language and society ; 29.
Subjects:
Language and languages > Sex differences.
Semantics.
Semantics (Philosophy)
Langage et langues > Différences entre sexes.
Sémantique.
Sémantique (Philosophie)
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
Language and languages > Sex differences
Semantics
Språksociologi.
Semantik.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Language, Gender and Sexual Identity; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Introduction; Queer Linguistics; Queer approaches in linguistic research; Redefining Genderlects; The sedimentation of structural gender categories; The discursive materialisation of feminine and female generics; The discursive construction of the gendered body; Linguistic identity construction in queer cinema; Thinking Further: Language, Gender and Wounding; Language index; Subject index; The series IMPACT: Studies in language and society.

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