Living with Patriarchy

Discursive constructions of gendered subjects across cultures
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-0636-7
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 307 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 745 g

Reihe: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture

This innovative book critically examines patriarchal hegemonies from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. It challenges the Anglo-American bias of much gender and language research to date by including rich new data and insights from scholars working in countries such as Colombia, Liberia, Kenya, Vietnam, Japan, Greece, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sweden, Denmark and Poland. Within these different geographical contexts, a broadly defined notion of culture incorporates organizational cultures, subcultures of society, cultures of clans or tribes as well as national cultures, depending on the meanings ascribed to the notion by people in public and private spaces. The central question of the volume, which is addressed through a variety of data, different discourse analytical approaches and research methodologies, is: How is gender constructed in social life and in patriarchal systems through discourse in different parts of the world?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Majstorovic, Danijela

Lassen, Inger

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationstheorie