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{"title":"Gender-sensitive language use in Serbia","authors":"T. Petrović","doi":"10.1558/genl.21190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.21190","url":null,"abstract":"Charting dominant views on gender-sensitive language in the Serbian public sphere, this article points to the ways sociopolitical transformations are grasped and dealt with in postsocialist Serbia. It looks at a case where the legislative action by the state, namely the adoption of the Gender Equality Bill in 2021, disrupted the usual pattern of mutual support between national linguistic experts and the nationalist politics of the state. The debate on the use of social femininatives in Serbian reveals the political force of language ideologies of authenticity, authority, legitimacy and naturalness that mobilise various expert, politicaland social actors whose views often converge in an unexpected manner. It shows that the issue of gender equality in Serbia and in postsocialist Europe in general cannot always be seen as resulting exclusively from the mutually conditioned processes of social movement and countermovement, or of gender mainstreaming and anti-gender backlash; neither can its understanding be reduced to binaries of progressiveness/openness/liberalism/Europeanness vs. conservatism/ nationalism/authoritarianism/anti-Europeanness. Rather, gender equality in these contexts must be seen as part of broader sociopolitical processes at both national and transnational levels.Mapirajuci preovladujuce poglede na rodno osetljiv jezik koji cirkulisu u javnoj sferi, clanak osvetljava nacine razumevanja i prihvatanja sociopolitickih promena u postsocijalistickoj Srbiji. Kroz uvid u debate oko Zakona o rodnoj ravnopravnosti donetog 2021. godine, clanak analizira slucaj kada je drzavnim zakonodajnim aktom prekinut uobicajeni obrazac medusobne podrske izmedu lingvistickih strucnjaka sa nacionalih akademskih institucija s jedne, i nacionalisticke drzavne politike s druge strane. Debata o upotrebi socijalnih femininativa u spskom jeziku ukazuje na politicku snagu jezickih ideologija autenticnosti, autoriteta, legitimnosti i prirodnosti i njihov kapacitet da mobilisu razilicite strucne, politicke i drustvene aktere ciji se pogledi na pitanja rodno osetljivog jezika cesto priblizavaju na neocekivan nacin. Pokazuje da pitanja rodne ravnopravnosti u Srbiji i sire u postsocijalistickoj Evropi nije uvek moguce razumeti kao rezultat dinamike izmedu drustvenih pokreta i kontra-pokreta ili urodnjavanja javnih politika i mobilizacije nazadnih i konzervativnih snaga, niti ih je moguce redukovati na binarne kategorije progresivnosti/otvorenosti/liberalizma/evropejstva i konzervativnosti/nacionalizma/autoritarnosti/anti-evropejstva, vec ih je neophodno posmatrati kao deo sirih, nacionalnih i transnacionalnih procesa.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44482158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nonbinary Czech language","authors":"V. Kolek","doi":"10.1558/genl.20657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.20657","url":null,"abstract":"As a morphologically rich Slavic language, Czech contains many possibilities for nonbinary language use. The broad aim of this article is to provide insights into existing and emerging nonbinary language strategies and the metadiscourses that surround them. After outlining the available means of gender-fair language, the analysis turns to possibilities for expressing nonbinarity, presenting emic insights regarding nonbinary community members’ own language use, choices, innovations and metalinguistic reflections, as well as wider out-group responses. Discourses coming from the nonbinary community draw attention to less understood connections of language, self-expression, authenticity and social perception, whereas outgroup discourses draw on broad views of what is ‘natural’ in language and society. Emerging voices suggest that despite the general absence of debates surrounding nonbinary language in Czech academia and public discourse, much is happening ‘underground’ in personal language use and community interactions, reflecting the ongoing negotiation of tensions between gender-normative structures and the range of feasible agentive practices used to subvert them.Cestina jako morfologicky bohaty slovansky jazyk nabizi mnoho moznosti pro nebinarni vyjadrovani. Sirsim cilem clanku je poskytnout vhled do vznikajicich i jiz existujicich jazykovych strategii a taktez do metadiskurzu, ktere je obklopuji. Po nastineni dostupnych prostredku genderove vyvazeneho jazyka se analyza zameruje na moznosti vyjadreni nebinarity a predstavuje emicke poznatky tykajici se vlastniho uzivani jazyka nebinarni komunitou, jejich volby, inovace a metajazykove reflexe, stejne jako sirsi reakce mimo komunitu. Diskurzy vychazejici z nebinarni komunity se venuji predevsim mene znamym souvislostem jazyka, sebevyjadreni, autenticity a socialni percepce, zatimco diskurzy pochazejici mimo tuto skupinu venuji pozornost predevsim sirsimu kontextu toho, co je a neni v jazyce a spolecnosti ,,prirozene\". Objevujici se hlasy naznacuji, ze navzdory obecne absenci debat o nebinarnim jazyce v ceskem akademickem prostredi a verejnem diskurzu se toho hodne deje ,,pod povrchem\", tj. v osobnim uzivani jazyka, v interakcich dane komunity, coz odrazi probihajici obrusovani hran mezi genderove normativnimi strukturami a skalou moznych agentivnich praktik k jejich prekonani.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45373809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Discursive acts of resistance","authors":"Małgorzata Chałupnik, Gavin Brookes","doi":"10.1558/genl.20148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.20148","url":null,"abstract":"Ogolnopolski Strajk Kobiet (All-Poland Women's Strike) is a grassroots campaign established in Poland in 2016 in response to the proposed tightening of abortion laws but which also engages with broader social, feminist and women's rights issues. Using a critical approach to multimodal discourse analysis, this article analyses the postings of the campaign on its main social media platform, Facebook, investigating closely the types of multimodal speech acts, referred to here as 'communicative acts', employed therein. The article examines the forms that such communicative acts take and the broader functions they fulfil within the (online and offline) context of the campaign. The observed communicative acts contribute towards and indeed enact the protest quite directly, forming an important part of the campaign's discourse of feminist dissent.Ogolnopolski Strajk Kobiet powstal we wrzesniu 2016, na fali protestow wywolanych propozycja prac nad zaostrzeniem polskiego prawa aborcyjnego. Ruch zajmuje sie rowniez szerzej pojetymi zagadnieniami spolecznymi i feministycznymi oraz prawami kobiet. Przedmiotem naszej analizy sa posty Ogolnopolskiego Strajku Kobiet na platformie spolecznosciowej Facebook. W odniesieniu do postow tego ruchu zastosujemy krytyczna analize dyskursu, skupiajac sie na multimodalnych aktach mowy, do ktorych bedziemy sie w tym artykule odnosic jako do 'aktow komunikacyjnych'. W kontekscie dyskursu Ogolnopolskiego Strajku Kobiet bedziemy obserwowac formy i funkcje niniejszych aktow komunikacyjnych. W naszym artykule postulowac bedziemy, ze posty Ogolnopolskiego Strajku Kobiet sa czesto bezposrednia forma protestu, tworzac wazna czesc dyskursu masowego zrywu i buntu feministycznego.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46695523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Politics of resignification","authors":"Ksenija Bogetić","doi":"10.1558/genl.23885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.23885","url":null,"abstract":"Societies of central and eastern Europe are increasingly described as the hub of broader ‘antigender’ mobilisations, which has made them a locus of interest in political science and gender studies, yet they curiously remain among the least represented in gender and language scholarship to date. Recent developments in the region tap into some urgent foci for the sociolinguistic study of gender and sexuality, encompassing not only growing frames of right-wing nationalism and antigenderism, but also burgeoning forms of feminist and queer resistance, whose intricacies and paradoxes complicate dominant perspectives in the field. Following a brief overview of the region's developments and contributions to the field, the present article uses this backdrop for an outline of several linguistic semiotic processes pertinent for tracing the dynamics of ‘gender ideology’ in discourse. More broadly, based on the complexities observed, the article emphasises the value of insights from postsocialist societies for rethinking the possibilities of true gender equality, within the wider struggles against the exploitation, marginalisation and dehumanisation pervasive in our current social reality.\u0000O drustvima centralne i istocne Evrope cesto se govori kao o zaristu 'antirodnih' mobilizacija, zbog cega privlace sve vise interesovanja u oblasti politickih nauka i rodnih studija, te iznenaduje da ova drustva spadaju medu najslabije zastupljene u oblasti jezika i roda. Skorasnja dogadanja u ovom regionu ukazuju na vazna pitanja za sociolingvisticko izucavanje roda i seksualnosti, unutar danas rasprostranjenih okvira desnicarskog nacionalizma i anti-rodnih pokreta, ali i novih oblika feministickog i kvir otpora, cije nijanse i paradoksi komplikuju neke ustaljene perspektive u ovoj naucnoj oblasti. Nakon kratkog pregleda postojecih tendencija u izucavanjima jezika i roda u regionu, te teorijske diskusije o lingvistickim semiotickim procesima koji su u osnovi dinamika rodnih ideologija u javnom diskursu, u radu se istice znacaj nalaza iz postsocijalistickih drustava za promisljanje mogucnosti stvarne rodne emancipacije u sklopu sirih borbi protiv eksploatacije, marginalizacije i dehumanizacije kakve odlikuju nasu sadasnju drustvenu realnost.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47978038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Asian masculinity celebrated and otherised","authors":"Satoko Suzuki","doi":"10.1558/genl.18803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.18803","url":null,"abstract":"Japanese writers portray Chinese and Korean men as physically masculine, which often involves heightened sexuality, in two ways. First, some female writers discuss Japanese women’s heterosexual desire for Chinese and Korean men by emphasising these men’s physicality and desirable masculinity. Second, Japanese novelists often assign hypermasculine language to Chinese and Korean male characters. By celebrating Chinese and Korean masculinity, such depictions offer a counternarrative to derogatory stereotypes that have circulated and continue to circulate in rightwing (often male) nationalistic discourses. At the same time, however, the language these writers employ otherises Chinese and Korean men by hypersexualising them and placing them outside mainstream Japanese society.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45447716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond dichotomies","authors":"Afra Al-Khulaif, Dorien Van De Mieroop","doi":"10.1558/genl.19290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.19290","url":null,"abstract":"Most research on gender in the Middle Eastern workplace treats gender identities in relation to the polarity of ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’. Although some of these studies take a critical perspective, they largely ignore the importance of language, and therefore empirical work on this topic from a social constructionist perspective is largely lacking. This article presents the narratives related by a female Qatari professional during a research interview and the discursive positions she takes up vis-à-vis these ‘tradition-or-modernity’- oriented dominant discourses of gender-based difference. A qualitative, micro-oriented discourse analytical method highlights how ‘gender identity’ is made relevant in the negotiation of ‘professional identity’ and how culturally-governed expectations about femininity and professionalism surface – and are interactionally dealt with. The interviewee constructs a highly ephemeral identity at the intersection of gender and professional identity, presenting a much less polarised view on gender identity. This challenges essentialist notions of the gender-related tradition-modernity dichotomy found in the literature.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48825753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Language, gender and sexuality in 2021","authors":"Branca Falabella Fabrício","doi":"10.1558/genl.23322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.23322","url":null,"abstract":"This year-in-review addresses the way violence and civil unrest manifested intensely in 2021, at the two-year mark of the Covid-19 pandemic, by inspecting the local dramas various authors re-narrate through the lenses of gender, sexuality and their semiotic performances. Three focal points organise the literature recontextualised here. First is the study of the lingering effects of cisheteropatriarchy in different contexts. Second, while forging a diagnosis of the present, the texts reviewed here address ongoing practices that defy the persistent colonial gaze. Third, they propose future paths that follow the decolonial route now at the centre of language, gender and sexuality research. Overall, the works resonate with the sound of the past, the fury of the present and the hope for the future. While transitioning forward with actions set forth today, they reimagine colonial yesterdays. As such, they indicate the chronotopic mobility of power-resistance performances.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67455008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Ted Cruz cucks again’","authors":"Maureen Kosse","doi":"10.1558/genl.21079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.21079","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides a multimodal semiotic analysis of the word cuck as used in online white supremacist spaces. A fundamental belief of the white supremacist ‘alt-right’ movement is an anti-Semitic narrative that positions Jewish people as a ‘global elite’ that seeks to oppress and eliminate white populations. Central to this belief is that Jewish people actively manipulate populations of colour, Black people in particular, to overtake white populations in a process known as ‘white genocide’ or ‘the great replacement’. Based on a digital ethnography of alt-right communities on Voat, Twitter and Reddit, this article demonstrates how the memeified word ‘cuck’, a pejorative term for ‘weak’ men on the US political right wing, draws from and reproduces this white nationalist conspiracy theory through allusions to interracial cuckold pornography. While disguised as innocuous, expressions like ‘cuck’ provide insight into how the alt-right weaponises misogynist and racist humour in its radicalisation efforts.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43170377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"(Hetero)sexist microaggressions in practice","authors":"Rosemary Lobban, R. Luyt, D. McDermott","doi":"10.1558/genl.21005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.21005","url":null,"abstract":"Verbal microaggressions perpetuate inequalities and negatively impact wellbeing. Yet, there is little work on microaggressions in situ. We address this gap, connecting microaggressions research with scholarship concerning prejudice and discrimination in situated interaction, and focusing on (hetero)sexist microaggressions. Conversation analysis (CA) and membership categorisation analysis (MCA) are applied to excerpts of naturally-occurring and focus group conversation to determine what (hetero)sexist microaggressions look like in practice; how they affect conversations; and whether they map onto well-documented CA/MCA phenomena. Findings suggest that when people produce microaggressive utterances, they use various devices (e.g. pre-sequences, idioms, humour) to mitigate accountability. Furthermore, concerning recipients’ reactions, the treatment of an utterance as microaggressive can involve hallmarks of dispreferred turns including hesitation and/or indirect challenges involving deletion/repair initiation. We therefore propose that such features are criteria for an utterance/sequence to be considered microaggressive. Moreover, such strategies suggest that speakers/recipients are agentic in the (re)production of (hetero)sexism, and therefore may be agentic in effecting change.\u0000 \u0000OPEN ACCESS CC BY-NC-ND: INV PAID","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41667164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Linguistic Variation and Social Practices of Normative Masculinity Fergus O’Dwyer (2020)","authors":"Nicholas Hugman","doi":"10.1558/genl.23324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.23324","url":null,"abstract":"Linguistic Variation and Social Practices of Normative Masculinity Fergus O’Dwyer (2020) New York: Routledge, xvi + 258 pp.","PeriodicalId":44706,"journal":{"name":"Gender and Language","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67455072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}