in the Language Practices of Young Men in Tripoli * Abstract: is article analyzes the socio/linguistic construction of gender in Arabic in Tripoli, showing how young Libyan men make use virile and masculine speech practices as part of their performance of gender.Analyzing the interactions of a group of young men through participant observation and a resulting corpus of spontaneous recordings of speech, this article shows how, in their self-expression, certain young Libyan men perform their speech practices towards hegemonic, gendered goals, exalting virilizing values and foregrounding heterosexism by means of transgressive language practices. ese language practices express domination, heterosexism, and homosociality, permitting them to distinguish themselves from women and others discursively and interactively constructed as inferiors, in order to validate their existence as dominant males.
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