Sara Mills
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5652704 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sara Mills |
| NOMBRES | Sara |
| APELLIDO | Mills |
| FIRMA | MILLS S |
| AFILIACIONES | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-7228-0043 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 230 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1943 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Editors’ Letter
Taken for Granted
Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable By E. Zerubavel (2018) Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 142pp
Reading between Blurred Lines
Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships
This article demonstrates the continued prevalence of traditional, heteronormative practices regarding marriage and naming practices, and also considers the complex choices made by same-sex couples who marry in relation to whether there are any benefits in changing their surname. The study draws on data from an online survey of 1,000 respondents, and reveals that it continues to be viewed as more ‘normal’ for a woman to take her husband’s surname…
Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage
In this article, we take a queer linguistics approach to the analysis of data from British newspaper articles that discuss the introduction of same-sex marriage. Drawing on methods from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics, we focus on the construction of agency in relation to the government extending marriage to same-sex couples, and those resisting this. We show that opponents to same-sex marriage are represented and represe…
Duels and duets
Using Corpora to Analyse Gender’ Paul Baker (2014) London
A discursive approach to the analysis of politeness data
This paper aims to provide an exemplification of the way that the discursive approach can work in relation to the analysis of data. As such, it argues for the validity of the discursive approach to politeness. Because the discursive approach has been seen as difficult to employ in the analysis of data, in recent years, there has been a proliferation of research returning to Brown and Levinson’s approach. Although discursive approaches to politene…
Offering and hospitality in Arabic and English
This paper examines the conventional linguistic practices involved in everyday hospitality situations. We compare offers in Arabic and English and, rather than focusing on the differences between the ways interactants in these two cultures make offers, we challenge the notion that offering is in essence differently handled in the two languages. We argue instead that we should focus just as much on the similarities between the ways offers are made…
Implicit homophobic argument structure
This article analyses the linguistic and discursive elements which contribute to the production of implicit homophobia. Explicit homophobia has been well documented and strategies for countering discriminatory language have been developed (Baker 2014, Leap 2012). However, our interest here is in documenting implicit homophobia, where homophobic beliefs are only hinted at, are disassociated from the speaker, or are embedded within discursive and a…
Analysing Agency
This article analyses online reader responses to the erotic fiction series Fifty Shades, and queries whether fans gain agency by talking about the books. Through the use of queer critical discourse analysis, we argue that fans of Fifty Shades typically acquiesce in the normative gender roles portrayed within the books, but that this facilitates their agency as sexual beings. In particular, we show how the readers in our sample do identity work ar…
Gender and colonial space
This book is an analysis of the complex links between social relations—including notions of class, nationality and gender—and spatial relations, landscape, architecture and topography—in post-colonial contexts. Arguing against the psychoanalytic focus of much current post-colonial theory, it aims to set out in a new direction, drawing on a wide range of literary and non-literary texts to develop a more materialist approach. The book foregrounds g…
Rethinking Discernment
This article engages with the notions of discernment and volition, developed by Ide (1989), in order to consider how the concept which these phenomena describe could be reintroduced into second-wave critical analysis of politeness and impoliteness. It is our contention that these terms have been used in a way which polarizes cultures, so that various East Asian cultures are characterized as ‘discernment cultures’ whilst Western cultures are seen …
Interpersonal pragmatics
Michel Foucault
Critical stylistics, by Lesley Jeffries
Critical stylistics, by Lesley Jeffries, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 202 pp., ISBN 978-0-333-96448-4 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-333-96449-1 (paperback). I was slightly sceptical about this b
Just tell us what to do
Impoliteness in a cultural context
Launching studies of Gender and Language in the early 21st Century
In this paper, we briefly consider the history of studies of gender and language, and the institutionalization of these studies. We review debates about whether or not a new journal is necessary, as part of a larger discussion of what the establishment of a journal does for a field of study. We review statistics looking at publication rates of articles on language and gender in 5 key sociolinguistic journals, and argue that these statistics, as w…
Special issue of the Journal of Politeness
Introduction The papers in this special issue of the Journal of Politeness Research arose from a workshop which took place at the University of the West of England, Bristol, in February 2003 entitled ‘Politeness and (business) communication across national borders’. The aim of the workshop was to draw together researchers on politeness in business contexts or in the workplace working mainly on British English with others working on politeness in …
Gender and Colonial Space
This book is an analysis of the complex links between social relations—including notions of class, nationality and gender—and spatial relations, landscape, architecture and topography—in post-colonial contexts. Arguing against the psychoanalytic focus of much current post-colonial theory, it aims to set out in a new direction, drawing on a wide range of literary and non-literary texts to develop a more materialist approach. The book foregrounds g…
Gender and impoliteness
This article analyzes the complex relationship between gender and impoliteness. Rather than assuming that gender and impoliteness are concrete entities which can be traced in conversation, I argue that gender and impoliteness are elements which are worked out within the course of interaction. They are elements which are closely inter-related as stereotypically feminine gender identity is largely constructed around notions of “nice”, supportive, c…
Narrating landscape
Reproduced with permission of the publisher. © 2004 James & James(Science Publishers) Ltd
The Handbook of Language and Gender
P enelope E ckert and S ally M c C onnell ‐G inet . Language and Gender
Impoliteness in a cultural context
Interpersonal pragmatics
Gender and impoliteness
This article analyzes the complex relationship between gender and impoliteness. Rather than assuming that gender and impoliteness are concrete entities which can be traced in conversation, I argue that gender and impoliteness are elements which are worked out within the course of interaction. They are elements which are closely inter-related as stereotypically feminine gender identity is largely constructed around notions of “nice”, supportive, c…
Just tell us what to do
Gender and Colonial Space
The aim of this article is to highlight the gendered nature of colonial space. I aim to destabilise the assumption that imperial masculine idealised/desired space is the only spatial relation within colonial contexts, by focusing on the spatial relations of British and indigenous women at an idealised level and at the level of the 'contact zone'. Through an analysis of the complexity of different spatial relations within the colonial context, I h…
Implicit homophobic argument structure
This article analyses the linguistic and discursive elements which contribute to the production of implicit homophobia. Explicit homophobia has been well documented and strategies for countering discriminatory language have been developed (Baker 2014, Leap 2012). However, our interest here is in documenting implicit homophobia, where homophobic beliefs are only hinted at, are disassociated from the speaker, or are embedded within discursive and a…
Caught Between Sexism, Anti-sexism and `Political Correctness
This article focuses on the complex negotiations undertaken by professional feminist women in Britain with the discourses of anti-sexism,1 `political correctness' (`PC') and sexism, specifically in relation to their choice of titles and surnames. Rather than seeing these discourses as sets of permissible or forbidden practices or lists of words/phrases, I have preferred in this article to adopt a theoretical position, based on the work of Pierre …
Opposition as victimhood in newspaper debates about same-sex marriage
In this article, we take a queer linguistics approach to the analysis of data from British newspaper articles that discuss the introduction of same-sex marriage. Drawing on methods from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics, we focus on the construction of agency in relation to the government extending marriage to same-sex couples, and those resisting this. We show that opponents to same-sex marriage are represented and represe…
A discursive approach to the analysis of politeness data
This paper aims to provide an exemplification of the way that the discursive approach can work in relation to the analysis of data. As such, it argues for the validity of the discursive approach to politeness. Because the discursive approach has been seen as difficult to employ in the analysis of data, in recent years, there has been a proliferation of research returning to Brown and Levinson’s approach. Although discursive approaches to politene…
Analysing Agency
This article analyses online reader responses to the erotic fiction series Fifty Shades, and queries whether fans gain agency by talking about the books. Through the use of queer critical discourse analysis, we argue that fans of Fifty Shades typically acquiesce in the normative gender roles portrayed within the books, but that this facilitates their agency as sexual beings. In particular, we show how the readers in our sample do identity work ar…
Women, Gender and Language in Morocco
Identity and naming practices in British marriage and civil partnerships
This article demonstrates the continued prevalence of traditional, heteronormative practices regarding marriage and naming practices, and also considers the complex choices made by same-sex couples who marry in relation to whether there are any benefits in changing their surname. The study draws on data from an online survey of 1,000 respondents, and reveals that it continues to be viewed as more ‘normal’ for a woman to take her husband’s surname…
Offering and hospitality in Arabic and English
This paper examines the conventional linguistic practices involved in everyday hospitality situations. We compare offers in Arabic and English and, rather than focusing on the differences between the ways interactants in these two cultures make offers, we challenge the notion that offering is in essence differently handled in the two languages. We argue instead that we should focus just as much on the similarities between the ways offers are made…
Launching studies of Gender and Language in the early 21st Century
In this paper, we briefly consider the history of studies of gender and language, and the institutionalization of these studies. We review debates about whether or not a new journal is necessary, as part of a larger discussion of what the establishment of a journal does for a field of study. We review statistics looking at publication rates of articles on language and gender in 5 key sociolinguistic journals, and argue that these statistics, as w…
Narrating landscape
The potential of an oral history approach to the study of landscape archaeology is considered. The paper presents the findings from an AHRB-funded[auquery1]project 'Landscape archaeology and the community in Devon: an oral history approach', which aims to transgress some of the epistemological boundaries of archaeology by drawing on the discursive genre of oral history in order to augment, challenge and destabilize existing landscape narratives. …
Class, gender and politeness
This article challenges the assumption that politeness is the same for all groups within society. Politeness is often associated with the linguistic and non-linguistic behaviour of certain class and gender groups in Britain at a stereotypical level, so that middle class white women are considered by linguists such as Holmes to be more polite than men (even though this only refers to negative politeness behaviour, such as deference and apologising…
Negotiating discourses of femininity
(1992). Negotiating discourses of femininity. Journal of Gender Studies: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 271-285
Reading between Blurred Lines
Rethinking Discernment
This article engages with the notions of discernment and volition, developed by Ide (1989), in order to consider how the concept which these phenomena describe could be reintroduced into second-wave critical analysis of politeness and impoliteness. It is our contention that these terms have been used in a way which polarizes cultures, so that various East Asian cultures are characterized as ‘discernment cultures’ whilst Western cultures are seen …
Special issue of the Journal of Politeness
Introduction The papers in this special issue of the Journal of Politeness Research arose from a workshop which took place at the University of the West of England, Bristol, in February 2003 entitled ‘Politeness and (business) communication across national borders’. The aim of the workshop was to draw together researchers on politeness in business contexts or in the workplace working mainly on British English with others working on politeness in …
Discourse Competence
In feminist linguistic analysis, women's speech has often been characterized as “powerless” or as “over-polite”; this paper aims to challenge this notion and to question the eliding of a feminine speech style with femaleness. In order to move beyond a position which judges speech as masculine or feminine, which are stereotypes of behavior, I propose the term “discourse competence” to describe speech where cooperative and competitive strategies ar…
The male sentence
Prognostic Tests of Ability in Modern Languages
A language of our own
The male sentence
Innovations in the teaching of literature (2) New ways of reading
Innovations in the teaching of literature (3) Commentary on ‘Putting stylistic analysis in its place’
Do men and women talk differently
Discourses of difference
M/Otherland
Feministisches Close Reading
Discourse Competence
In feminist linguistic analysis, women's speech has often been characterized as “powerless” or as “over-polite”; this paper aims to challenge this notion and to question the eliding of a feminine speech style with femaleness. In order to move beyond a position which judges speech as masculine or feminine, which are stereotypes of behavior, I propose the term “discourse competence” to describe speech where cooperative and competitive strategies ar…
Reports
Negotiating discourses of femininity
(1992). Negotiating discourses of femininity. Journal of Gender Studies: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 271-285
Women's Orients
Mary Kingsley
Könets roll i kartläggningen av det koloniala rummet
Within the colonial sphere women's interventions in the produetion and negotiations of spatial frameworks cannot simply be considered in terms of notions of confinement. Although the strictures on women's movement within the colonial zone were important in shaping a notion of a woman's place and contributed to a sexualising of space, nevertheless, women as producers of knowledge and viewers of landscape were able to adopt seerningly masculine rol…
Colonialism and Gender Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid
Gender and Colonial Space
The aim of this article is to highlight the gendered nature of colonial space. I aim to destabilise the assumption that imperial masculine idealised/desired space is the only spatial relation within colonial contexts, by focusing on the spatial relations of British and indigenous women at an idealised level and at the level of the 'contact zone'. Through an analysis of the complexity of different spatial relations within the colonial context, I h…
Colonial domestic space
(1996). Colonial domestic space. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 39, Space and gender, pp. 46-60
A Wider range
Discourse
Language and Gender
Language, gender and career, Jennifer Coates 2. Rethinking language and gender studies: some issues for the 1990s, Deborah Cameron Section 2: Lesbian Poetics 3. Constructing a lesbian poetic for survival, Liz Yorke 4. Sappho and the other woman, Margaret Williamson 5. 'Her wench of bliss: gender and the language of Djuna Barnes' Ladies Almanack, Deborah Tyler-Bennett Section 3: Gender/Genre 6. Cyborgs and cyberpunk: rewriting the feminine in popu…
Short Reviews
Grounded Theory and Messy History
Gender and Politeness
Gender and Politeness challenges the notion that women are necessarily always more polite than men as much of the language and gender literature claims. Sara Mills discusses the complex relations between gender and politeness and argues that although there are circumstances when women speakers, drawing on stereotypes of femininity to guide their behaviour, will appear to be acting in a more polite way than men, there are many circumstances where …
Discourses of Difference
Discourses of Difference unravels the complexities of writings by British women travellers of the `high colonial' period. Sara Mills examines the relation of women travellers to colonialism, positioned as they were at the site of conflicting discourses: femininity, feminism, and patriarchal imperialism. Using feminist discourse theory, Sara Mills analyses the writings of three women travellers - Alexandra David-Neel, Mary Kingsley and Nina Mazuch…
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