Language, Sex and Social Structure [electronic resource] : Analysing Discourses of Sexuality /
Clark, J.author.
This book offers an innovative way of doing critical discourse analysis that focuses on the performatively produced concepts and social structures that support oppressive attitudes in a community. It draws upon ethnographic data from a women's field hockey club to examine players' homophobic attitudes towards lesbians on the team.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 The Local Politics of Sexuality; 1.1 Structured variation in discourses of sexuality; 1.2 An ethnographic method for critical discourse analysis; 1.3 The logics that sustain conceptual systems; 1.4 Agency without social actors; 1.5 A relevance-theoretical methodology; 1.6 Overview; 2 Theorizing Social Structure; 2.1 Social structure and emancipation; 2.2 Foucault: sexuality and the 'positive mechanisms' of power; 2.3 Social life as practice; 2.4 Giddens: structuration; 2.5 Butler: the performative production of sexual difference
2.6 'Community' and practice theory in sociolinguistic research2.7 Emancipation, agency and structure; 3 The Performative Production of Conceptual Systems; 3.1 Discursive psychology; 3.2 The performativity of conceptual systems; 3.3 Relevance theory; 3.4 Fieldwork and data collection; 3.5 Applying the methodology; 4 'Who's Snogged a Girl, Who's Slept with a Girl': Sex Concepts and Individual Concepts; 4.1 Sex as a conceptual system; 4.2 'I have never'; 4.3 Individual concepts; 5 'Oh Yeah, She's a Good Hockey Player': Local, Emergent Social Structures
5.1 'I'll end up being gay because I'm a hockey player'5.1.1 Sexuality and individual identities; 5.1.2 Sexuality and the 'hockey player' identity; 5.2 The achievement of HOCKEY PLAYER**; 5.2.1 HOCKEY PLAYER** and individual identity; 5.2.2 HOCKEY PLAYER** and community membership; 5.3 Identities in conflict; 5.4 Conclusion; 6 'And the Size of His ...' 'Shush!': Hockey, Achievement and the Silencing of Desire; 6.1 The 'image' of women's football; 6.2 Heterosexuality as achievement; 6.3 Heterosexuality and hockey: positioning hockey within a larger network of women's sport
6.4 Hockey v. rugby: identity v. desire6.5 Constructing the desiring hockey player; 7 'After University They'll Go Back to Normal': the Emancipatory Agenda; 7.1 Sexuality, achievement and the team's dividing practices; 7.2 Who are the losers here?; 7.3 The emancipatory agenda: is the focus too local?; Appendix: Transcription Conventions; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book offers an innovative way of doing critical discourse analysis that focuses on the performatively produced concepts and social structures that support oppressive attitudes in a community. It draws upon ethnographic data from a women's field hockey club to examine players' homophobic attitudes towards lesbians on the team.
Sociolinguistics.
Sociology.
Sociolinguistics.
Gender Studies.