Doing Feminist Conversation Analysis

Kitzinger, Celia

doi:10.1177/0959353500010002001

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“…These transcriptions cover overlaps, emphasis, loudness, pauses, and prolongation of sounds and latching. 4 Among discourse analysts, there has recently been a discussion about gender analytical issues and participants' orientations (Kitzinger 2000;Schegloff 1998;Stokoe and Smithson 2001;Wetherell 1998). The part of the discussion that is most relevant to the present study is what counts as an orientation towards gender.…”

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Beyond stereotypes? Talking about gender in school booktalk

Barajas

2008

Ethnography and Education

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The Swedish educational system states that work in schools should depict and mediate equality. One way of achieving this is through fiction, which according to the syllabus provides students with knowledge about the living conditions of women and men during different epochs and places. The present paper examines gender in a Swedish school, analysing 'book club' discussions, using a discursive approach. The data consist of video-recorded teacher-led booktalk sessions, involving small groups of pupils in grades 4_7. It was found that the teachers and/or the pupils invoked gender issues in all book club sessions. The fictive events were, at times, discussed in genderstereotyped ways. Yet, the teachers and pupils also transcended gender stereotypes in several cases. In many of those cases, there was a generational pattern, in that the participants tended to apply less stereotyped thinking when talking about fictive characters of their own age.

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Beyond stereotypes? Talking about gender in school booktalk

Barajas

2008

Ethnography and Education

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“…Examples of this attempt are proposals like the Feminist Talk Analysis (KITZINGER, 2000), Feminist Style (MILLS, 1995), Feminist Pragmatics (CHRISTIE, 2000, Critical Feminist Discourse Analysis (LAZAR, 2005(LAZAR, , 2007 and Post-Structuralist Feminist Discourse Analysis (BAXTER, 2003(BAXTER, , 2008. These theories are somewhat unified in their general political objectives, but are divided in the theoretical-methodological forms that follow to reach them.…”

Section: Feminist Discourse Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

A Decisão Do STF Sobre Aborto De Fetos Anencéfalos: Uma Análise Feminista De Discurso

Freitas

2018

Alfa, rev. linguíst. (São José Rio Preto)

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■ ABSTRACT: This article presents an analysis of the Federal Supreme Court appellate decision in the Action for Breach of a Fundamental Precept number 54 (ADPF 54), which sought to resolve the controversy about the possibility of voluntary interruption of pregnancy in the case of fetuses with anencephaly. Through discourse analysis with a feminist approach, the paper focuses on the paradoxical way in which the Court met a feminist demand and women's rights movements: (1) concealing the bonds with activists of these groups and with the discourses they defend about the autonomy of women in relation to their bodies; 2) maintaining the traditionalist and androcentric standard of law. Thus, the analysis describes three language devices that stand out in the articulation of this paradox: explanation, naming and representation. The paper points the persistence of the traditional and androcentric paradigms in the Law field that Justice values and with which it operates. This study aims to contribute to the debate on the decriminalization of abortion in Brazil, as well as to discuss the relationship between language / gender / law.

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“…Some feminist researchers with a poststructuralist orientation, for example, regard Schegloff's requirement that speakers in an interaction explicitly invoke gender as 'unbearably limiting' (e.g. Kitzinger, 2000) for research with a political agenda such as feminism. More recently, however, Schegloff himself (e.g.…”

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Talking yourself into work: insights from sociolinguistics about gender and the employment interview

Barrett¹

2015

Handbook of Gendered Careers in Management

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This chapter gives a brief critical history of three phases of linguistic research into gender and language: an essentialist phase, a constructionist phase and a post-structuralist phase. It pays particular attention to the post-structuralist phase, which focuses on how meaning is actively constructed by both parties to a speech event such as a conversation, and the consequences of particular judgements by the more powerful participants, especially in 'gate-keeping' conversations such as job interviews. We pay particular attention to research into naturally occurring conversations, which employs conversation analysis (CA), an interactional sociolinguistics technique. Campbell and Roberts's (2007) CAbased study of intercultural employment interviews yielded complex, detailed understandings about how candidates' speech led to favourable or unfavourable assessments of them during the employment interview. In this chapter we re-analyse Campbell and Roberts's data from a gender perspective and find that some aspects of what is often stereotypically considered 'women's language' -aspects that conflict with the 'rules' of interview performance -are likely to lead to unfavourable assessments of women as potential employees. This strongly suggests that some types of interview interaction that are normative for women, for example, high levels of frankness, high levels of personal disclosure and narrativized speech, are likely to act to women's disadvantage when they attempt to 'get in' to organizations. The chapter concludes with a summary of the implications of the re-analysis for women's entry into the world of paid work, including suggestions about how interviewees and interviewers can overcome these unfavourable and unfounded judgements. Mary BarrettThis chapter gives a brief critical history of three phases of linguistic research into gender and language, an essentialist phase, a constructionist phase and a post-structuralist phase. It pays particular attention to the post-structuralist phase, which focuses on how meaning is actively constructed by both parties to a speech event such as a conversation, and the consequences of particular judgements by the more powerful participants, especially in 'gate-keeping' conversations such as job interviews. We pay particular attention to research focused on naturally occurring conversations using conversation analysis (CA), an interactional sociolinguistics technique. CA yields complex, detailed understandings about how a candidate's speech leads to favourable or unfavourable assessments of them during the employment interview. Campbell and Roberts' (2007) study that examined intercultural employment interviews is re-analysed from a gender perspective. The re-analysis finds that some aspects of what is often stereotypically considered 'women's language' -aspects which conflict with the 'rules' of interview performance -are likely to lead to unfavourable assessments of women as potential employees. This strongly suggests that some types of interview interaction which a...

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Doing Feminist Conversation Analysis

Cited by 305 publications

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Beyond stereotypes? Talking about gender in school booktalk

Beyond stereotypes? Talking about gender in school booktalk

A Decisão Do STF Sobre Aborto De Fetos Anencéfalos: Uma Análise Feminista De Discurso

Talking yourself into work: insights from sociolinguistics about gender and the employment interview

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