Chapter 5. You don’t even try to understand!: Interdisciplinarity in language and gender studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Rusty Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Gender and expletives as discourse markers: Some uses of joder in young women’s interactions in Spanish and Galician

Feminismo/s ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Virginia Acuña Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Discourse Markers ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
Young Females ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Speaking Style

This paper approaches young women’s speaking style by analysing the ways in which the interjection joder is employed in interactions in Spanish and Galician among young females. The analysis identifies several uses of this form at the interactional and discursive level: reinforcement of speech acts, marker of disagreement, marker of complaints, expression of minimal emotional assessments, correcting and stalling. It is concluded that joder has developed multiple functions in interaction as a discursive marker, in contrast to arguments against the inclusion of interjections in this pragmatic category. The findings also suggest that this expletive fulfils a sociolinguistic function as a marker of ‘young femininities’, since it demonstrates how it has been integrated into young women’s speaking style, in contrast to traditional gender rules and broader descriptions of ‘women’s talk’ in Language and Gender studies.

scholarly journals A Cross-Examination of Female Masculinities and Male Femininities in Mema by Daniel Mengara

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 384
Author(s):  
Ayodele A. Allagbé ◽  
Akinola M. Allagbé
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
African Culture ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
And Gender

<p><em>This paper attempts a critical reading of Mema (2003) written by Daniel Mengara. The study draws on insights from language and gender studies, feminism and queer theory to critically cross-examine how female masculinities and male femininities are represented in the novel. It holds the view that gendered identities are socially constructed via speech. This means that language encodes means which overtly mark masculinity or/and femininity. However, it should be noted that neither masculinity nor femininity is an exclusive characteristic of the male or the female sex/gender. In this sense, the role(s) an individual takes on in a given context confers either the masculine or the feminine profile upon him/her. This study concludes that gendered identities as portrayed in Mema are intricate, and that in most cases the portraiture of both sexes counters the expectations of African culture</em><em>.</em></p>

scholarly journals Proses Pemerolehan Bahasa Arab Berperspektif Gender Sebagai Bahasa Kedua di Fakultas Tarbiyah dan Ilmu Keguruan IAIN Bukittinggi

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Zikrawahyuni Maiza
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
And Gender

<p class="Stylepapertitle14pt"><em>Language has long been considered as a territory dominated by women. For example, in the area of </em><em></em><em>interpretation/translation it can be seen that there are more women than men 3 to 1, and when talking about language teaching, there are more female instructors than men. So the question is: are women better at learning languages </em><em></em><em>and acquiring languages </em><em></em><em>than men? This research was conducted on students of the Arabic Language Study Program of IAIN Bukittinggi. Gender studies related to second language acquisition are linked to developments in two different subfields, namely: second language acquisition studies on one side and language and gender studies on the other. This research is a qualitative descriptive study and uses a performance analysis approach. The results of this study indicate that there are differences in the mastery of syntax and writing of Arabic words and letters between students and female students and there is a gender effect in acquiring and mastering Arabic as a second language.</em><em></em></p>

scholarly journals LANGUAGE AND GENDER STUDIES: PAST AND CURRENT APPROACHES AND DEBATES

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thi Thu Ha
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Gender

This study looks at the different approaches in language and gender research since its emergence in the early 1970s. These approaches, namely the dominance, the difference and the postmodernist approach, are reviewed in a chronological order together with sample studies reflecting the tenets of each approach. A comparison across the approaches is also provided to offer profound understanding of the approaches. Current trends in language and gender studies are also highlighted to inform potential researchers in the field of the updated foci in literature.

displacement of race in language and gender studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Bucholtz ◽  
Deandre Miles-hercules
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Language Group ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Individual Perspective

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 female-identified linguistics professor who was deeply involved in the Berkeley Women and Language Group in the 1990s and has conducted research on language and gender throughout her career, especially with respect to its intersection with race. deandre’s Black and gender-creative subjectivity substantially colours the lens through which they experience and interpret the social life of language.

Japanese language and gender research

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeko Okamoto
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Japanese Language ◽  
Future Research ◽  
European Language ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

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 norms and deploy a wide variety of linguistic and other semiotic resources for styling diverse forms of gender and sexual identity in situated practice. These questions have profound implications for the relationship between language and gender.

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