The Feminist Foundations of Language, Gender, and Sexuality Research

Bucholtz, Mary

doi:10.1002/9781118584248.ch1

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“…Poststructuralist feminism, another anti‐essentialist perspective, “scrutinizes binary models of sex, gender, and sexuality for what they reveal about the social organization of these categories and how they are challenged by complex identities and practices” (Bucholtz, , p. 37). This approach often draws on Butler's () performativity theory.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Citations of Norms and Lines of Flight in One Immigrant Boy's Performances of Masculinities and Reading Identities

Qin

2019

Reading Research Quarterly

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In this ethnographic case study, the author examined one immigrant adolescent's performances of masculinities through reading practices. The author analyzed how Omar (pseudonym), a Muslim boy from Libya, used reading practices to produce himself as a boy in one U.S. multilingual classroom. Extending the anti‐essentialist scholarship on gender and reading, the author brought together Butler's queer feminism and Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy of becoming to further trouble gender and analyze the instability of Omar's masculinity performances in relation to reading practice. Through analyses of field notes, classroom interactions, and artifacts, this study showed that Omar discursively performed and negotiated multiple and seemingly conflicting reading identities across time and space. Although he was discursively positioned as a nonreader in classroom interactions, he also performed disengagement with reading to display a cool, nonschoolish masculinity aligned to the normative discourses of Arab masculinity to which he was subject. However, he also enacted reader identity and behaviors not traditionally associated with masculinity. Omar's identity negotiation, interactionally and socially situated, demonstrated the instability of masculinity performances, featuring repeated citation of gender norms fissured with lines of flight breaking away from normative ways of being. This analysis contributes to the anti‐essentialist research on boys and literacies by shedding light on the regulations and ruptures in masculinity performances of a gendered subject. The study highlights the importance of situating analysis of gender and reading practices within the social and power relations in the discursive and interactional space. Addressing space allows a close reading of how gender hegemonies operate and fracture in micro movements of identity performance and how space can be shaped to open up opportunities for becoming‐other.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Citations of Norms and Lines of Flight in One Immigrant Boy's Performances of Masculinities and Reading Identities

Qin

2019

Reading Research Quarterly

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“…Questioning this static approach, recent research has shifted its focus to more critical examinations of the relationship between language and gender as being indirect, socially constructed, and dynamic, and hence potentially variable, multiple, and diverse (e.g. Bucholtz, 2014;Bucholtz & Hall, 2004;Eckert & McConnell-Ginet, 2013). Corresponding to this general change, Japanese language and gender research has also shifted its focus from the structural description of joseigo 'women's language' and danseigo 'men's language' as distinct categories to a more critical approach with the understanding that these categories represent linguistic gender norms or stereotypes.…”

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confidence: 99%

Variability and multiplicity in the meanings of stereotypical gendered speech in Japanese

Okamoto

2016

EAP

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Recent research on the use of gendered speech in Japanese has demonstrated extensive within-gender diversity, suggesting that the relationship between linguistic forms and gender is variable, not fixed. While this diversity in use suggests a diversity in interpretation, the latter has not been adequately examined in its own right and deserves closer attention, given that it has important implications for the relationship between linguistic forms and social meanings. To address this gap, this article analyses both native speakers' metapragmatic comments on the use of gendered linguistic forms and the interpretation of such forms used in situated conversations. It considers how and why forms normatively interpreted as feminine or masculine may be (re)interpreted differently by different persons or in different social contexts. Drawing on the notion of indirect and variable indexicality, I consider how such diverse and multiple interpretations can be accounted for in a theoretically coherent manner.

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“…They have emphasized the importance of paying attention to linguistic practices and gendered language ideologies in contexts of racial inequity for the purpose of foregrounding those who have been long ignored or marginalized in both society and research (see e.g. Bucholtz, 2014).…”

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Does Finland Need Raciolinguistics?

Ennser–Kananen¹,

Jäntti²,

Leppänen³

2017

Apples

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A growing number of applied linguists and language educators in the US/North American context advocate for and from a scholarly perspective which views language issues in relation to racial issues and vice versa. The emergent field of raciolinguistics highlights the relationships between language and race/racism and has brought about research that investigates their intersections. Should scholars in Finland adopt (and adapt) such an approach to scholarly work? Three Finland-based scholars explore this question in a question ("prompt") - response format.

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The Feminist Foundations of Language, Gender, and Sexuality Research

Cited by 47 publications

References 91 publications

Citations of Norms and Lines of Flight in One Immigrant Boy's Performances of Masculinities and Reading Identities

Citations of Norms and Lines of Flight in One Immigrant Boy's Performances of Masculinities and Reading Identities

Variability and multiplicity in the meanings of stereotypical gendered speech in Japanese

Does Finland Need Raciolinguistics?

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