http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/gateway/plugin/WebFeedGatewayPlugin/atomGender and Language2023-12-18T12:29:16+00:00Rodrigo Borba, Kira Hall and Mie Hiramotorodrigoborba@letras.ufrj.brOpen Journal Systems<div dir="ltr"> <div class=""> <div class=""> <div class=""> <div class=""> <div class="x_gmail_quote"> <div class="" dir="ltr"> <div class=""> <div class=""> <div class=""> <div class=""> <div class=""> <div class=""> <div class=""><em class="">Gender and Language</em><span class=""> offers an international forum for language-based research on gender and sexuality from feminist, queer, trans and nonbinary perspectives. </span><span class="">The journal</span><em class=""> </em><span class="">showcases research on the social analytics of gender in discourse domains that include institutions, media, politics and everyday interaction. </span><a href="https://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/about">Read more about the journal</a>.</div> <div class=""> </div> <div class=""> <p><a href="https://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/Metrics"><strong>Metrics</strong></a><br />Journal Impact Factor: 1.3 (Clarivate Analytics, 2022 data)<br />5 Year Impact Factor: 1.3 (Clarivate Analytics, 2022 data)<br />H-Index 2022: 15<br />CiteScore 2022: 2.9 <a href="https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700169834#tabs=0">more details</a><br />SNIP 2022: 0.877<br />SJR 2022: 0.446<br />Qualis CAPES tier 2<br />Ranked #115 out of 1001 journals in the Language and Linguistics category (top 88th percentile) and #43 out of 190 in the Gender Studies category (top 77th percentile) (ranking from 2022 CiteScore)</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/27559'Language, Gender and Videogames: Using Corpora to Analyse the Representation of Gender in Fantasy Videogames' Frazer Heritage (2021)2024-01-12T13:14:54+00:00Hannah E. Dahlberg-Dodd
<p><em>Language, Gender and Videogames: Using Corpora to Analyse the Representation of Gender in Fantasy</em> <em>Videogames</em><br />Frazer Heritage (2021)<br />Springer Nature, 245pp.</p>
2024-01-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/27558'The Language of Pick-Up Artists: Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry' Daria Dayter and Sofia Rüdiger (2022)2024-01-12T13:14:56+00:00Laura Filardo-Llamas
<p><em>The Language of Pick-Up Artists: Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry</em><br />Daria Dayter and Sofia Rüdiger (2022)<br />Routledge, 217pp.</p>
2024-01-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/27300Mediated by the materiality of spaces2024-01-12T13:14:58+00:00Shaila Sultana
<p>This commentary considers how the special issue ‘Mobilising Language, Gender and Sexuality Studies’ contributes to recent developments in theories that demonstrate the importance of taking a posthumanist approach to sociolinguistics research. While the papers in the special issue show how mobile communities, including migrants, asylum seekers, sex workers and domestic workers, make sense of and participate in different activities in the world, this commentary shows that people in these communities also make sense of themselves with reference to different spaces – both real and imaginary, and both near and distant. Teasing out these aspects, the commentary suggests keeping research about posthumanism, the Global South and alternative ways of doing sociolinguistics at the core of the exploration of the complexities inherent in language practices, gender, sexuality, and individual and collective mobility, migration and resistance.</p>
2024-01-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2024 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/27064From Fritzl to #metoo: Twelve Years of Rape Coverage in the British Press. Alessia Tranchese (2023)2023-11-20T12:22:52+00:00Nicole Tanquary
<p><em>From Fritzl to #metoo: Twelve Years of Rape Coverage in the British Press</em><br />Alessia Tranchese (2023)<br />Palgrave Macmillan, 436pp.</p>
2023-11-20T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/20021Inclusive writing2023-07-25T09:52:34+00:00Julie Abbou
<p>This article documents the linguistic, disciplinary, geographical and ideological circulation of the notion of ‘inclusive writing/d’écriture inclusive’ in order to understand the French controversy surrounding the term. The article shows that North American Protestant feminist theologists first spread the expression in the 1970s. The expression then circulated in feminist circles in English and French, in Europe and North America, but also in the fields of disability and pedagogy. Its success in the French space, however, is not only due to its Protestant roots but also to a republican definition of inclusion emerging in France in the 1990s. By the time the controversy shot up, the paradigm of inclusion was thus loaded with its French republican meaning as much as its English and/or North American meaning, creating an ideological paradox that limits inclusive writing’s critical capacity and fails to question relations of domination.</p>
2023-07-25T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/22405The gender of language contact2023-07-25T09:51:53+00:00Sandhya Krittika Narayanan
<p>This article considers how language contact is gendered through an analysis of how inter-Indigenous Quechua–Aymara boundary maintenance practices and ideologies are feminised in the Peruvian <em><span class="CharOverride-2">altiplano</span></em>. The analysis focuses on the semiotic regimentation of Indigenous ethnolinguistic boundaries, concentrating on the role of four Indigenous female figures: the Indigenous wife; the Indigenous female market vendor; the reimagined mythic Indigenous founding mother; and the Indigenous beauty pageant contestant. An ethnographically grounded, scalar analysis of Quechua–Aymara contact in the region shows how each of the female figures is ideologically linked to a specific aspect of inter-Indigenous language contact and boundary maintenance. Furthermore, the discussion shows the interconnectedness of these female figures and their associated ideologised practices and discourses, which lead to the feminisation of inter-Indigenous language contact in the region.</p>
2023-07-25T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/22877An investigation into the representation of women on ‘intimate wellness’ websites2023-07-25T09:51:07+00:00Alexandra Woodward
<p>‘Intimate wellness’ is an offshoot of the wellness industry in which brands promote products to women for the practice of vulval and vaginal self-care. This niche, but growing, consumer category is worthy of feminist research as it is concerned with health, beauty and the contemporary trend of destigmatising female genitalia. This research explores the representation of women in a corpus of intimate wellness websites by examining the agency and associated processes of the participants. It identifies the coexistence of conflicting discourses: essentialist feminism, neoliberal postfeminism and patriarchal tradition. Through new concepts, termed ‘assisted agency’ and ‘assisted processes’, this study illuminates the represented relationship between female consumers and female brand personae. Ultimately, it finds that these websites represent women as (potentially) agentful but not autonomous, constructing the idea that female empowerment is contingent on consumption.</p>
2023-07-25T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/23358Representations of gender and sexual orientation over three editions of a Japanese language learning textbook series2023-07-25T09:50:16+00:00Maki Yoshida
<p>This study analyses a popular commercial textbook series for learning Japanese as a second or foreign language (JSL/JFL) and investigates how its textual and visual representations of gender and sexual orientation have changed over the three editions published over the last 20 years. Examining the interplay of text and images, the longitudinal analysis reveals that heteronormative representations remain dominant across the three editions, while observing some changes in representation over time. For instance, derogatory depictions of LGBTQ+ people have been removed and – albeit limited – representations that give consideration to gender and sexual diversity have been incorporated. Such changing representations indicate how language, gender and sexuality ideologies in Japanese society intersect with the globalised contexts of JSL/JFL, and suggest that stratified ideological values regarding gender and sexuality are enmeshed with the commercial viability of textbook publishers.</p>
2023-07-25T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/26176Language, gender and sexuality in 20222023-07-25T09:49:30+00:00Lucy Jones
<p>This article focuses on research from 2022 that critically analyses the ways in which oppressive discourses continue to circulate, and which examines the role of language in protesting and resisting these discourses. It considers studies that remind us of the feminist and queer principles underpinning the field: to question and critique how hegemonic ideologies of gender and sexuality are reproduced and maintained. The review explores two key areas: research that reveals the continuing problem of mainstream transphobia and studies that consider how feminist discourses of resistance operate linguistically. It concludes with a call for more of this research to be applied to real-world contexts in order to create tangible change. In bringing this work together, the review aims to reaffirm the vital and emancipatory role that language, gender and sexuality scholarship has in both documenting and resisting regressive ideology.</p>
2023-07-25T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/26177Discursos Transviados: Por uma Linguística Queer. Edited by Rodrigo Borba (2020)2023-07-25T14:41:45+00:00Ernesto Cuba
<p><em>Discursos Transviados: Por uma Linguística Queer</em><br />Edited by Rodrigo Borba (2020)<br />São Paulo: Cortez, 437 pp.</p>
2023-07-25T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/26276Zauq: Khwajasira Number (Zauq: Transgender Edition). Edited by Syed Nusrat Bukhari and Arshad Seemab Malik (2023)2023-07-25T14:40:40+00:00Muhammad Sheeraz
<p>Zauq: Khwajasira Number (Zauq: Transgender Edition)<br />Edited by Syed Nusrat Bukhari and Arshad Seemab Malik (2023)<br />Zauq Publications, 176 pp.</p>
2023-07-25T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/26690Of discursive passports and checkpoints2024-03-13T10:13:25+00:00Tommaso M. Milani
<p>This commentary advances the notions of passports and checkpoints as heuristics through which to theorise the external and internal push and pull of identity and desire within specific regimes of normativities and geopolitical imbalances. More specifically, passporting happens when normative regimes of representations issue what one could call discursive passports – that is, institutionalised identity bundles, which sediment over time, defining individuals as specific ‘types’. Such discursive passports are no less harmful than their material counterparts because they can constrain people’s access to resources in more pervasive and far-reaching ways than their identity documents do. On the other hand, checkpoints are interactional moments in which people police themselves and others in everyday interactions. Checkpoints can be 1) external, when one’s discursive positionings or emotional expressions are questioned or even blocked by other people, or 2) internal, when people police their sense of belonging and affective practices such as desire.</p>
2024-01-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/26689Mobilising language, gender and sexuality studies2024-01-12T13:15:03+00:00Lynnette ArnoldKristine Køhler Mortensen
<p>This introduction frames the special issue ‘Mobilising Language, Gender and Sexuality Studies’, situating the contributions in relation to interdisciplinary scholarship on migration, gender, sexuality and language. In particular, this introduction draws attention to Global South theorisations of migration as resistance, suggesting that scholars of language, gender and sexuality can build on such approaches to trace forms of agency that otherwise might go unnoticed. The contributions to this special issue investigate how gender and language circulate in dominant migration discourses and are contested by mobile communities, linking normative ideologies to individual bodies and lives through the use of stereotyped figures. The introduction also highlights how themes of time, place and nation weave through the contributions and calls for a scalar approach that resists the widespread downscaling of migrants’ own discursive acts. It concludes with a call to action that urges scholars to consider how they might support the ways in which mobile communities are making sense of and taking action in the world.</p>
2024-01-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/26560queerqueen: Linguistic excess in Japanese media. Claire Maree (2020)2023-11-20T12:22:52+00:00Katherine Arnold-Murray
<p><em>queerqueen: Linguistic Excess in Japanese Media</em><br />Claire Maree (2020)<br />Oxford University Press, 214pp.</p>
2023-11-20T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/18548Defending Christianity from the ‘rainbow plague’2023-05-15T12:19:32+00:00Dominika Baran
<p class="abstract-space-below">Building on previous work on the anti-genderism register and moments of enregisterment, and adopting the Discourse-Historical Approach with its notion of <span class="CharOverride-1">topoi </span>as an argumentation device used by right-wing populists, this article examines how the Catholic Church and right-wing politicians and media have mobilised against the alleged threat of ‘LGBT/gender ideology’ in Poland. Based on the analysis of 70 texts including homilies, political speeches, news articles and interviews, the article identifies three content-related<span class="CharOverride-1"> topoi</span> that are relayed across various anti-genderist actors. Together, these<span class="CharOverride-1"> topoi</span> and their repeated reuptake help to construct a historicised narrative of Poland as the defender of Christianity and of Europe, and to legitimise different actors’ anti-LGBT campaigns as they pursue their particular agendas. The article makes a contribution to exploring the processes through which the globally circulating anti-genderism register operates in a specific local context.</p>
2023-05-15T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/18549Reclaiming presence2023-05-15T12:19:08+00:00Daniel N. SilvaAllison Dziuba
<p class="abstract-space-below">Political actors’ embedding of the here-and-now of enunciation into constructions of gender, sexuality and race is a deictic practice that can be uncoupled from its context and projected into political fields. This article unpacks alternative invocations of the deictic field by Jair Bolsonaro’s new right in Brazil and by Marielle Franco, a queer Black councilwoman who was assassinated in 2018, the same year Bolsonaro was elected president. While Bolsonaro has vilified progressive tropes, such as gender equality, sex positive education and Marielle’s legacy, Marielle and later her mourning movement have mapped her here-and-now onto mottos such as ‘Marielle lives’, which defy chronologic time. Marielle’s central figure has thus been ‘present’ across the political spectrum – for progressives as a figure of immanence, and for white supremacists as a symbol of the Black gendered body whose life is not mournable but whose phantasmatic presence is a continuing threat.</p>
2023-05-15T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/18550‘We have the best gays, folks’2023-05-15T12:18:54+00:00Chloe Brotherton
<p class="abstract-space-below">In the wake of the 2016 election of Donald Trump, users on the pro-Trump online forum thedonald.win engaged in violently homophobic and Islamophobic discourses. This study uses a critical discourse analytic approach to investigate how users on this forum contradictorily invoke homosexuality to construct Muslims as sexually deviant while also situating them as homophobic and therefore incompatible with the users’ brand of American nationalism. This is an example of homonationalism, using the United States’ supposed tolerance of homosexuality to uphold American exceptionalism and paint Muslims as anti-gay and thus anti-American. While this form of homonationalism was originally formulated in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the presidency of Donald Trump has altered the way the homonationalist project is discursively constructed on an interactional level.</p>
2023-05-15T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/18551Tradwives and truth warriors2023-05-15T12:18:33+00:00Catherine Tebaldi
<p class="abstract-space-below">The language of white identitarian traditionalist women, or ‘tradwives’, recontextualises white nationalism in the language of sexual politics. It creates images of the enemy other as a ‘societal sodomiser’ and of an idealised woman who represents and defends the threatened family and nation. These homophobic horror stories create deep affective investment in white nationalist nostalgia and subsume women’s individuality to the image of the nation. White womanhood stands in for the national body under threat, allowing these tradwives to portray themselves as idealised whiteness, pseudo-subversive dissidents who reinforce the social order, and mother-protectors of the nation. Yet even the most arch-feminine performance of white womanhood need not be inextricably linked to nationalist imaginaries, enabling the possibility of a truly subversive femininity.</p>
2023-05-15T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/25635Of tradwives and TradCaths2023-05-15T12:18:21+00:00Catherine TebaldiDominika Baran
<p>Building on Borba’s theorisation of the anti-genderism register, the articles in this special issue explore anti-genderism as a political tool for the global right in four cases: online ‘tradwives’ or traditional wives defending national and sexual purity (Tebaldi), homonationalism in the Islamophobic forum r/thedonald (Brotherton), the natalist chronopolitics of Bolsonaro in Brazil (Silva and Dziuba) and the invocation of the spectre of gender to place Poland at the centre of the white West (Baran). Together, they highlight new discursive elements in the nationalist far-right use of the anti-genderism register and the construction of morally marked figures through nationalist discourses of tradition, sexuality, temporality and place. Anti-genderism is not just a call for ‘traditional’ gender or marriage, but the evocation of a gendered nation, an idealised past and a strong future populated with warriors and mothers.</p>
2023-05-15T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/25636New media, nationhood and the anti-gender kaleidoscope2023-05-15T12:18:12+00:00Letícia Cesarino
<p>This discussion article highlights how the contributions to the special issue shed different light on one of the most striking features of anti-genderism: its capacity to cut across particularities within and between countries, articulating disperse grievances and demands around a shared field of resonances, which is at once transnational and local. Two interrelated axes exist: the pivotal scaling function that the empty signifier of ‘the nation’ plays in the anti-genderism register in Poland, Brazil and the United States and the way new media have afforded, in different ways, the construction of this image of the enemy other as a palpable, enduring threat.</p>
2023-05-15T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/25637Linguistic engagement as public health2023-05-15T12:17:59+00:00Eric Louis Russell
<p>This short response reframes anti-genderist linguistic and discursive praxes as a viral pathogen, analogous to COVID-19. Accordingly, the four research contributions to this volume document and analyse the spread and virulence of anti-genderist forces. This response makes additional allusions to Gal’s framework accounting for enregisterment. Ultimately, this leads to a call for linguists to be more and more deeply active in the disruption of such semiotic ecosystems and their constituent parts, reconceiving of themselves as akin to public health officers, while also reasserting the place of linguistics and linguistic scholarship in the humanities.</p>
2023-05-15T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/25907Review of George Farrugia’s (2018) 'Grammatical Gender in Maltese'2023-05-15T12:17:56+00:00Ashley Reilly-Thornton
<p><em>Grammatical Gender in Maltese</em><br />George Farrugia (2018)<br />Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 301 pp.</p>
2023-05-15T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/25908Review of Dustin Harp’s (2019) 'Gender in the 2016 US Presidential Election: Trump, Clinton, and Media Discourse'2023-05-15T12:17:53+00:00Zhongqing He
<p><em>Gender in the 2016 US Presidential Election: Trump, Clinton, and Media Discourse</em><br />Dustin Harp (2019)<br />New York: Routledge, 192 pp.</p>
2023-05-15T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/22685Where the personal is political2024-01-24T09:24:18+00:00Mike BaynhamBahiru ShewayeKayode Gomes
<p>The <em><span class="CharOverride-1">Queer Asylum Stories</span></em> project collected interviews with people who had successfully gained asylum based on their sexuality. The focus of this article is on life stories leading up to and triggering the decision to seek asylum, and the processes of formation of the interviewees’ queer subjectivity. The discussion draws on the three related constructs of interpellation, ideological becoming and habitus, and considers the role of queer activism, understood as a dimension of queer habitus as theorised in the foundational work of Didier Eribon. Finding that the term ‘activism’ is widely used but infrequently defined, the article suggests that activism in general, and queer activism in particular, need to be defined explicitly and explored in order to gain a deeper understanding of what is involved. It provides a working definition of queer activism to guide this process.</p>
2024-01-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/22690Metalinguistic discourses of ‘styling the other’2024-01-12T13:15:05+00:00Busi Makoni
<p>This article explores how mobility shapes language, gender and sexuality during periods of indeterminacy, focusing on the discursive construction of masculinities. Using styling/‘styling the other’ as an interpretive framework, the article analyses how economic precarity leads to ambivalence in the masculinities of Zimbabwean heterosexual-identifying male migrants (ages 26–30 years) in Johannesburg. Interview data suggests that these men engaged in male-to-male sex work to achieve economic security. To solicit wealthy white men, the men performed stereotypical Black hypermasculinity and sophisticated, cosmopolitan gay subjectivities through language crossing and physical styling. These performances ultimately aimed to achieve the normative masculine identity of being a husband and provider. The article elucidates the <span class="CharOverride-1">paradox in which the men appropriated Polari, a British gay patois, and foreign or white understandings of Black/African masculinity to style the ‘other’ while fulfilling traditional Zimbabwean notions of masculinity.</span></p>
2024-01-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/22687National heroes or dangerous failures2024-01-12T13:15:10+00:00Lynnette Arnold
<p>This article centres the Global South in studies of language and mobility by focusing on migration discourse in El Salvador, a Central American country with four decades of widespread emigration. The analysis examines state-endorsed discourses, tracing how entextualised figures of migrant personhood shift over time in response to changing political-economic conditions. Gender is central to these dominant depictions, which rely on a consistent contrast between successful and failed migrants that mobilises neoliberal models of personhood. This dichotomy emerges through indexical associations with heteropatriachal forms of care: successful migrants fulfil their responsibilities by providing for their family and their nation, whereas failed migrants do not. By placing the onus on individual actions, these dominant discourses elide the state abandonment and global political economic inequalities that continue to compel Salvadorans to migrate.</p>
2024-01-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/22688'We also have lives, you know'2024-01-12T13:15:07+00:00Alwin C. Aguirre
<p>Using a multimodal discursive approach supplemented with semi-structured interviews, this article analyses the identity work of Hong Kong-based Filipina labour migrants on social media. The study is premised on the representational potential of these media forms to circulate ideas that either challenge or reinforce dominant notions of migrant life. The intersections of gender, race and class in the participants’ discourses are salient as they attempt to make sense of their lives in the host city through online signifying affordances. Further, a desire to differentiate themselves from dominant notions of being a Filipino woman in Hong Kong is prominent, illustrating the need to interrogate limiting and oppressive characterisations of migrants that are emplaced in both online and offline realities.</p>
2024-01-12T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/20148Discursive acts of resistance2024-02-16T08:30:22+00:00Małgorzata ChałupnikGavin Brookes
<p>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.<br /><br />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.</p>
2022-11-18T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2022 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/20657Nonbinary Czech language2024-02-16T08:30:21+00:00Vít Kolek
<p>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.<br /><br />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.</p>
2022-11-18T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2022 Equinox Publishing Ltd.http://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/21097'Rainbow plague' or 'rainbow allies'?2024-02-16T08:30:21+00:00Dominika Baran
<p>The anti-genderism register, which demonises the LGBTQ+ community as promoters of so-called 'gender ideology', has spread in recent decades across right wing populist discourses around the world. In Poland, it is an important resource in right wing constructions of national identity, which appeal to a historicised account of Poland as the guardian of European Christianity. However, there is also a counternarrative that envisions Poland as a progressive member of the European Union with secular politics and respect for diversity in all its forms. In this context, the Polish lexeme tecza 'rainbow' is a floating signifier whose meanings are struggled over by opposing discourses of LGBTQ+ rights and their place in Polish public life. Drawing on an analysis of 521 texts from five media outlet types on the right and left wing sides of the political spectrum, this article examines the contestation of tecza as a site where the very meaning of present-day Polishness is discursively negotiated.<br /><br />Rejestr antygenderyzmu, ktory demonizuje spolecznosc LGBTQ+ jako promotorow tak zwanej ,,ideologii gender", w ostatnich dziesiecioleciach rozprzestrzenil sie w prawicowych dyskursach populistycznych na calym swiecie. W Polsce stanowi on istotny element prawicowych konstrukcji tozsamosci narodowej, odwolujacych sie do uhistorycznionego ujecia Polski, postrzeganej jako straznika europejskiego chrzescijanstwa. Istnieje jednak kontrnarracja, prezentujaca Polske jako postepowego czlonka Unii Europejskiej, jako kraj zdolny do prowadzenia swieckiej polityki oraz poszanowania dla roznorodnosci we wszelkich jej przejawach. W takim kontekscie polski leksem ,,tecza" jest ,,plynna znaczaca", o ktorej rozumienie walcza przeciwstawne dyskursy praw LGBTQ+ i ich miejsca w polskim zyciu publicznym. W oparciu o analize 521 tekstow z pieciu rodzajow mediow, zarowno z prawicowej jak i lewicowej strony spektrum politycznego, niniejszy artykul analizuje kontestacje sensu ,,teczy" jako miejsca, w ktorym dyskursywnie negocjowane jest samo znaczenie wspolczesnej polskosci.</p>
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