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Intergender communication as intralingual translation in Ubang, Southeastern Nigeria 尼日利亚东南部乌邦语内翻译中的跨性别交际

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1558/sols.24059

Samson Nzuanke

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'Graphic politics in Eastern India: Script and the quest for autonomy' Nishaant Choksi (2021) “东印度的图形政治:文字和对自治的追求”尼尚特·乔克西(2021)

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1558/sols.23360

Rizwan Ahmad

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'Professional development in Applied Linguistics: A guide to success for graduate students and early career faculty' Luke Plonsky (ed.) (2020) “应用语言学专业发展:研究生和早期职业教师成功指南”卢克·普隆斯基(编)(2020)

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1558/sols.23217

Zichen Guan

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Gender and sexuality in African discourses 非洲话语中的性别和性

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1558/sols.24323

D. Fiaveh, Eyo O. Mensah

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‘Chips Funga’

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1558/sols.24049

D. Orwenjo

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‘It’s not all about spreading one’s legs’ “这并不全是伸开双腿的问题。”

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1558/sols.24048

Eyo O. Mensah, Utomobong Nsebot, Eyamba Mensah, Lucy Ushuple, Romanus Aboh

{"title":"‘It’s not all about spreading one’s legs’","authors":"Eyo O. Mensah, Utomobong Nsebot, Eyamba Mensah, Lucy Ushuple, Romanus Aboh","doi":"10.1558/sols.24048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.24048","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the layers of signification and interpretive frames of female adolescents’ nuanced experiences of virginity loss in heterosexual relationships in Akpabuyo and Bakassi Local Government Areas of Cross River State in southeastern Nigeria. This study is theoretically anchored in the social constructionist perspective of doing gender, which conceptualises it as a routine accomplishment embedded in everyday interaction. Drawing on qualitative data using semi-structured interviews with 25 female adolescents who were purposively sampled, we investigate the social, cultural, and structural factors that informed participants’ sexual debut and romantic life trajectories from their nuanced perspectives and experiences. We investigate virginity-based discursive subjectivities under three thematic tropes: coercive/consensual sex, stigma, and patriarchal affordances. The results, based on linguistic evidence, show that participants have ambivalent perceptions of virginity loss and/or preservation: while some were overwhelmed with guilt and tended to align with traditional prescriptions about female sexuality, others viewed it as an extension of patriarchal subjugation of women and interpreted their experience in terms of agency and resistance. In this way, virginity loss discourses provide a prominent site for doing or undoing gender. The study recommends intervention programmes for young rural women to reduce the risk of unplanned pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and HIV/AIDS acquisition as a result of their lack of sexual competence, economic security, and educational empowerment, which have contributed to their vulnerability, victimhood, and exposure to unhealthy sexual practices.","PeriodicalId":43912,"journal":{"name":"Sociolinguistic Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72971833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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LGBQ+ in Ghana 加纳的LGBQ+

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1558/sols.24050

D. Fiaveh

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'Urban contact dialects and language change: Insights from the Global North and South Paul' Kerswill and Heike Wiese (eds) (2022) 城市接触方言和语言变化:从全球南北Paul' Kerswill和Heike Wiese的见解(编辑)(2022)

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1558/sols.23728

Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta

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'Language Corpora annotation and processing' Niladri Sekhar Dash (2021) “语言语料库注释和处理”Niladri Sekhar Dash (2021)

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1558/sols.23901

S. Arulmozi

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Language, fiction, and heteropatriarchal critique in selected recent Ugandan short fiction 语言，小说，和最近乌干达短篇小说的异族父权制批评

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Sociolinguistic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1558/sols.23998

E. Nabutanyi

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