Language, Gender, and Sexuality: Current Issues and New Directions
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Sociolinguistic (and some applied linguistic) research dealing with questions of gender and sexuality has undergone significant change in the past 10–15 years, as a paradigm organized around the concept of binary difference has been superseded by one that is concerned with the diversity of gendered and sexual identities and practices. Here the theoretical foundations for the shift in approach—provisionally characterized as a kind of ‘postmodern turn’—are discussed, along with the motivations for it; three areas of empirical research illustrating its practical consequences are then examined in more detail. Some present and future challenges facing researchers in this field of inquiry are also identified and assessed.
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Cameron characterized the constructivist perspective as post-modern, with emphasis shifting from an essentialist view of culture to a performative process.
“Deborah Cameron has characterized this constructivist perspective as 'post-modern' (Cameron 2005), which doesn't mean that it has superseded the modern, but that the emphasis has shifted from an essentialist view of culture as the performance of pre-existing values and beliefs to a view of culture as a performative process in which old words can be given new meanings and can give birth to new thoughts.”
From Language and Culture (2014) · cites this paper as Cameron 2005
Cameron has characterized the constructivist perspective as post-modern, meaning the emphasis has shifted from an essentialist view of culture as performance of pre-existing values to a view of culture as a performative process in which old words can be given new meanings and can give birth to new thoughts.
“Deborah Cameron has characterized this constructivist perspective as 'post-modern' (Cameron 2005), which doesn't mean that it has superseded the modern, but that the emphasis has shifted from an essentialist view of culture as the performance of pre-existing values and beliefs to a view of culture as a performative process in which old words can be given new meanings and can give birth to new”
From Language and Culture (2014) · cites this paper as Cameron 2005
Clear and specific distinctions between male and female authors do not exist.
“this paper agrees that clear and specific distinctions between male and female authors will lead to nothing since those distinctions do not exist in the first place.”
From Feminist and Pessimist Existentialism in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”: A Systemic Functional Grammar Analysis (2021) · cites this paper as Cameron (2005)
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- Authors
- Cameron, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Cameron, Deborah
- ORCID
- Cameron, Deborah
- Venue
- Applied Linguistics
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2005-12-01
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 482-502
- ISSN
- 0142-6001 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-450X
- OpenAlex
- W2151231562
- Cited by
- 430
- References
- 53
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- FWCI
- 15.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Applied Linguistics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Studies in Language
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistic Variation and Morphology
- Keywords
- gender, sexuality, gendered language, sexual identity, postmodern turn, gendered identity, sexual practices, sociolinguistic theory, paradigm shift
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