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Language And Gender Analyzing Interaction In A Brazilian Portuguese And English Language Mixed Sex Setting
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Book Synopsis Language and Gender: Analyzing Interaction in a Brazilian Portuguese and English Language Mixed-sex Setting by : Fernando Cezar Oliveira
Download or read book Language and Gender: Analyzing Interaction in a Brazilian Portuguese and English Language Mixed-sex Setting written by Fernando Cezar Oliveira and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation attempts to investigate some interactional features in the conversation of women and men taking into account verbosity, turn-taking, use of standard forms, directness and assertiveness. To do so, an ethnographic method of natural conversation video-recording was utilized within a group of 2 female and 2 male Brazilian Portuguese speakers and 2 females and 2 males in a group of English speakers. This study suggests that the amount of talk uttered by women and men when they are in informal occasions may not vary so drastically. Accordingly, this investigation also shows that females and males may interrupt each other's conversation almost equally and may make the same use of colloquial language in informal settings. However, it also shows that women are more likely to make use of hedging devices than men. Hence, the observation of natural talk between women and men seems to suggest that both genders might make similar use of the language with respect to some interactional features of language found in their conversation in informal settings such as the ones described throughout this paper.
Book Synopsis Language and Social Relationship in Brazilian Portuguese by : Dale April Koike
Download or read book Language and Social Relationship in Brazilian Portuguese written by Dale April Koike and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Give me the salt" and "Please pass the salt" make the same request, but in a polite situation the first utterance may give offense, while the second may not. How and why such differences in wording and intonation, in a particular context, produce different effects is the concern of pragmatics, the area of linguistics that deals with how speech is used in interaction. In this innovative study of pragmatics in Brazilian Portuguese, Dale Koike analyzes the politeness phenomenon, specifically in the context of speech acts known as "directives." As acts intended to get someone to do something, directives bring into play a variety of sociocultural factors, depending on the relationship between the participants. Using empirical data obtained through natural language observation and from questionnaires of over one hundred adult native speakers, Koike identifies factors—such as age, education, and gender—that influence the strategies of politeness a given speaker is likely to use in making a directive. This research clarifies the unwritten language rules and assumptions that native speakers intuitively follow in phrasing their directive utterances. Koike also includes important material on the acquisition of strategies for politeness by children and adult second-language learners, as well as on gender differences in politeness forms. Her research proposes important additions to the theory of speech acts as conceived by Austin and Searle, particularly in the application of deictic organization to account for a hierarchy of pragmatic forms. Language and Social Relationship in Brazilian Portuguese will be of interest to a wide audience in diverse fields, including linguistics, anthropology, interaction analysis, communications, semantics, sociology, psychology, and education.
Download or read book Lusosex written by Susan Canty Quinlan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the most compelling theoretical debates in the humanities today center on representations of sexuality. This volume is the first to focus on the topic -- in particular, the connections between nationhood, sex, and gender -- in the Lusophone, or Portuguese-speaking, world. Written by prominent scholars in Brazilian, Portuguese, and Lusophone African literary and cultural studies, the essays range across multiple discourses and cultural expressions, historical periods and theoretical approaches to offer a uniquely comprehensive perspective on the issues of sex and sexuality in the literature and culture of the Portuguese-speaking world that extends from Portugal to Brazil to Angola, Cape Verde, and Mozambique. Through the critical lenses of gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and postmodern theory, the authors consider the work of such influential literary figures as Clarice Lispector and Silviano Santiago. An important aspect of the volume is the publication of a newly discovered-and explicitly homoerotic -- poem by Fernando Pessoa, published here for the first time in the original Portuguese and in English translation. Chapters take up questions of queer performativity and activism, female subjectivity and erotic desire, the sexual customs of indigenous versus European Brazilians, and the impact of popular music (as represented by Caetano Veloso and others) on interpretations of gender and sexuality. Challenging static notions of sexualities within the Portuguese-speaking world, these essays expand our understanding of the multiplicity of differences and marginalized subjectivities that fall under the intersections of sexuality,gender, and race.
Book Synopsis A Corpus-based Study of the Gender Assignment of Nominal Anglicisms in Brazilian Portuguese by : Taryn Marie Skahill
Download or read book A Corpus-based Study of the Gender Assignment of Nominal Anglicisms in Brazilian Portuguese written by Taryn Marie Skahill and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to analyze the variability of gender assignment to nominal anglicisms in Brazilian Portuguese and to identify how the orthography of English loanwords and their establishment in the language influences such variation. This study also seeks to identify the most important factors that govern such gender assignment. The data were gathered from two Portuguese corpora, one consisting of more formal and edited language (Corpus do Português, News on the Web) and the other consisting of less formal and unaltered language, such as blog posts (Corpus do Português, Web/Dialects). Forty anglicisms were analyzed in order to study the variation in gender assignment based on the anglicisms' orthography and establishment in the language, as well as to help determine whether the gender of the loanwords' cognates or calques influences the gender assignment of words borrowed from English into Portuguese. The results of this study indicate that the gender of the anglicisms' cognates or most frequent calques and the gender found in Portuguese dictionaries equally influence the gender assignment to anglicisms. This research also shows that variability in gender assignment is not significantly affected by an English loanword's attestation in Portuguese dictionaries nor by the adaptation to Portuguese orthography of English loanwords, though there are trends that indicate a negative correlation between the variability of anglicisms' genders and their attestation in Portuguese dictionaries.
Book Synopsis Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts by :
Download or read book Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Guerreiras by : Ashlee L. Dauphinais
Download or read book Guerreiras written by Ashlee L. Dauphinais and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is a mixed-methods ethnographic and linguistic study of how local understandings of femininity interact with medical practices among women with Turner Syndrome (TS), an intersex chromosomal condition affecting 1/2,500 women. For intersex individuals, social experiences of gender often collide with biological interpretations of sex and its material realities. Innovations in medical technology push the limitations of bodily manipulation and gendered norms and can mitigate tensions between the biological and the social experiences of gender, and this intersection of the social and the biological is particularly salient in intersex populations. While previous research has investigated social categories and their effects on health, few examine how health and medicine interact with social identity formation and linguistic practices. In Brazil, this is amplified as bodies are prominent both in the public eye and in national discourses on beauty, surgery, and hormones, where biomedicine is used to negotiate gendered bodily norms. At the same time, work within sociocultural linguistics and language, gender, and sexuality studies has begun to examine linguistic practices of non-binary populations, while very little previous work on intersex populations has been conducted. Over sixteen months of fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I conducted ethnographic and linguistic interviews with TS women and performed participant observation at two endocrinology clinics. In Chapter 1, I set the scene for the dissertation and research context. Chapter 2 presents a detailed analysis of the ethnographic, linguistic, and analytical methodologies employed. In Chapter 3, I examine how intimate characteristics of TS and ideologies of “sex” and “gender” are located in and on the body through an analysis of how women with TS interact with physiological phenomena such as hormone replacement, sex chromosomes, and other material practices. I conduct a discursive analysis of diminutives, constructed dialogue, and quotative markers to show speakers employ these linguistic features to assign agency in medical decision-making that has an impact on the physical body. In Chapter 4, I analyze the role of the body in community formation, engaging with theories of “communities of practice” and intersectionality in engaging larger discussions of what it means to be a woman. I show how the body is implicated in the construction of fictive kinship and a global Turner bioscape. Chapter 5 engages a quantitative study of fundamental frequency (F0) and vowel formants (F1-F3) and the interaction with biomedical factors such as karyotype, height, and growth hormone. I explore the ways fundamental frequency is implicated the construction of womanhood and maturity. Chapter 6 presents conclusions, larger contributions to the fields of linguistics and anthropology, and avenues for future directions. My overall findings demonstrate how intersex women in Latin America mobilize linguistic practices in global TS communities to assert personal agency amidst a body-centric context that exerts pressure to conform to medicalized understandings of femininity. Such social and embodied forces present implications for theories of speech community and embodied sociolinguistics. My research speaks to a broader move in sociocultural linguistics and the field of language and gender to explore practices of non-binary communities. As the first in-depth ethnographic study of linguistic practices among intersex individuals, my dissertation’s central contribution is its analysis of what it means to be “almost” female in Latin America in an age of rapid biomedical advances, and recentering the physical body in studies of language and gender.
Book Synopsis Sociological Abstracts by : Leo P. Chall
Download or read book Sociological Abstracts written by Leo P. Chall and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Book Synopsis Queering Language, Gender and Sexuality by : Tommaso M. Milani
Download or read book Queering Language, Gender and Sexuality written by Tommaso M. Milani and published by Equinox Publishing (Indonesia). This book was released on 2017 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity and Desire. Models of Gay Male Identity and the Marketing of "Gay Language" in Foreign-Language Phrasebooks for Gay Men / Rusty Barrett -- Incomprehensible Language? Language, Ethnicity and Heterosexual Masculinity in a Swedish School / Tommaso M. Milani, Rickard Jonsson -- The Desire for Identity and the Identity of Desire: Language, Gender and Sexuality in the Greek Context / Costas Canakis -- Unpacking Heteronormativity. Constructing Hegemonic Masculinities in South Africa: The Discourse and Rhetoric of Heteronormativity / Russell Luyt -- On-line Constructions of Metrosexuality and Masculinities: A Membership Categorization Analysis / Matthew Hall -- A Bit too Skinny for Me: Women's Homosocial Constructions of Heterosexual Desire in Online Dating / Kristine Kohler Mortensen -- Beyond Binaries? Do Bodies Matter? Travestis? Embodiment of (Trans)Gender Identity through the Manipulation of the Brazilian Portuguese Grammatical Gender System / Rodrigo Borba, Ana Cristina Ostermann -- Butch Camp: On the Discursive Construction of a Queer Identity Position / Veronika Koller -- The Other Kind of Coming Out: Transgender People and the Coming out Narrative Genre / Lal Zimman -- Gender, Sexuality and Space. Language, Sexuality and Place: The View from Cyberspace / Brian W King -- Homophobia as Moral Geography / William L. Leap -- Normal Straight Gays: Lexical Collocations and Ideologies of Masculinity in Personal Ads of Serbian Gay Teenagers / Ksenija Bogetic
Book Synopsis Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by :
Download or read book Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists written by and published by . This book was released on 1966-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
Book Synopsis Language and Sexuality by : Deborah Cameron
Download or read book Language and Sexuality written by Deborah Cameron and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and accessible textbook provides a clear introduction to the relationship between language and sexuality.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics by : Rajend Mesthrie
Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics written by Rajend Mesthrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.
Book Synopsis Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count by : James W. Pennebaker
Download or read book Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count written by James W. Pennebaker and published by Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Incorporated. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language, whether spoken or written, is an important window into people's emotional and cognitive worlds. Text analysis of these narratives, focusing on specific words or classes of words, has been used in numerous research studies including studies of emotional, cognitive, structural, and process components of individuals' verbal and written language. It was in this research context that the LIWC program was developed. The program analyzes text files on a word-by-word basis, calculating percentage words that match each of several language dimensions. Its output is a text file that can be opened in any of a variety of applications, including word processors and spreadsheet programs. The program has 68 pre-set dimensions (output variables) including linguistic dimensions, word categories tapping psychological constructs, and personal concern categories, and can accommodate user-defined dimensions as well. Easy to install and use, this software offers researchers in social, personality, clinical, and applied psychology a valuable tool for quantifying the rich but often slippery data provided in the form of personal narratives. The software comes complete on one 31/2 diskette and runs on any Windows-based computer.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Language and Gender Research by : Victoria Bergvall
Download or read book Rethinking Language and Gender Research written by Victoria Bergvall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking Language and Gender Research is the first book focusing on language and gender to explicitly challenge the dichotomy of female and male use of language. It represents a turning point in language and gender studies, addressing the political and social consequences of popular beliefs about women's language and men's language and proposing new ways of looking at language and gender. The essays take a fresh approach to the study of subjects such as language and sex and the use of language to produce and maintain power and prestige. Topics explored in this text include sex and the brain; the language of a rape hearing; teenage language; radio talk show exchanges; discourse strategies of African American women; political implications for language and gender studies; the relationship between sex and gender and the construction of identity through language. A useful introductory chapter sets the articles in context, explaining the relationships that exist between them, and full cross-referencing between articles and an extensive index allow for easy access to information. The interdisciplinary approach of the text, the wide-range of methodologies presented, and the comprehensive review of the current literature will make this book invaluable reading for all upper-level undergraduate students, postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of linguistics, sociolinguistics, gender and cultural studies.
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Book Synopsis Gender-Related Variation in the Speech of English and Romanian Adolescents by : Costin-Valentin Oancea
Download or read book Gender-Related Variation in the Speech of English and Romanian Adolescents written by Costin-Valentin Oancea and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a synchronic sociolinguistic analysis of gender-related variation in the speech of English and Romanian adolescents. It is motivated by the belief that variation is a characteristic of natural language, and that a comprehensive understanding of language must include a grasp of the nature and function of variation. The book analyses sociolinguistic features of adolescent speech that occur in natural, spontaneous, everyday speech, thus representing a major contribution to the study of language in its social context.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Language and Linguistics by : Ralph Fasold
Download or read book An Introduction to Language and Linguistics written by Ralph Fasold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible textbook offers balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of modern linguistics.
Book Synopsis Sexual Identities in English Language Education by : Cynthia D. Nelson
Download or read book Sexual Identities in English Language Education written by Cynthia D. Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What pedagogic challenges and opportunities arise as gay, lesbian, and queer themes and perspectives become an increasingly visible part of English language classes within a variety of language learning contexts and levels? What sorts of teaching practices are needed in order to productively explore the sociosexual aspects of language, identity, culture, and communication? How can English language teachers promote language learning through the development of teaching approaches that do not presume an exclusively heterosexual world? Drawing on the experiences of over 100 language teachers and learners, and using a wide range of research and theory, especially queer education research, this innovative, cutting-edge book skillfully interweaves classroom voices and theoretical analysis to provide informed guidance and a practical framework of macrostrategies English language teachers (of any sexual identification) can use to engage with lesbian/gay themes in the classroom. In so doing, it illuminates broader questions about how to address social diversity, social inequity, and social inquiry in a classroom context.
