Sally Johnson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3581776 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sally Johnson |
| PRENOMES | Sally |
| SOBRENOME | Johnson |
| ASSINATURA | JOHNSON S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9514-4220 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 176 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Language in the Media
"Examining the ways in which the media represents language-related issues and how it shapes and constructs what people think language is, this book offers a multilingual survey of the construction of language in and by the media. Tackling the big issues of identity, gender, youth, citizenship, politics and ideology across a range of mediums including television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the internet, Language in the Media brings together …
I see my section scar like a battle scar”
Though many women may be dissatisfied with their bodies, maternity represents a period when the body deviates significantly from Western beauty ideals. However, the developing corpus of literature is contradictory and there is limited knowledge about the longer-term implications of maternity. Further, much of the early postpartum literature focuses on body image, precluding consideration of broader embodiment and other potential issues. Taking ac…
Young British Pakistani Muslim women’s involvement in higher education
This article explores the implications for identity through presenting a detailed analysis of how three British Pakistani women narrated their involvement in higher education. The increased participation of British South Asian women in higher education has been hailed as a major success story and is said to have enabled them to forge alternative, more empowering gender identities in comparison to previous generations. Drawing on generative narrat…
Evaluating the audio-diary method in qualitative research
Purpose – Audio-diary methods are under-utilised in contemporary qualitative research. The purpose of this paper is to discuss participants and researchers’ experiences of using audio-diaries alongside semi-structured interviews to explore breastfeeding experiences in a short-term longitudinal study with 22 first-time mothers. Design/methodology/approach – The authors provide a qualitative content analysis of the participants’ feedback about thei…
Special Issue of Women's Studies International Forum
A socially situated approach to inform ways to improve health and wellbeing
Mainstream health psychology supports neoliberal notions of health promotion in which self-management is central. The emphasis is on models that explain behaviour as individually driven and cognitively motivated, with health beliefs framed as the favoured mechanisms to target in order to bring about change to improve health. Utilising understandings exemplified in critical health psychology, we take a more socially situated approach, focusing on …
Making use of expertise
There is now a body of research evaluating breastfeeding interventions and exploring mothers' and health professionals' views on effective and ineffective breastfeeding support. However, this literature leaves relatively unexplored a number of questions about how breastfeeding women experience and make sense of their relationships with those trained to provide breastfeeding support. The present study collected qualitative data from 22 breastfeedi…
It should be the most natural thing in the world’
Breastfeeding is a practice which is promoted and scrutinized in the UK and internationally. In this paper, we use interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore the experiences of eight British first-time mothers who struggled with breastfeeding in the early post-partum period. Participants kept audio-diary accounts of their infant feeding experiences across a 7-day period immediately following the birth of their infant and took part in rel…
II. Discursive Constructions of the Pregnant Body
Language Ideology and Spelling Reform
Expressing yourself
Language politics and legitimation crisis in Sweden
Since the late 1990s the question of whether to ratify the status of Swedish as the “principal” language of Sweden by means of a language law has been subject to considerable public dispute. Drawing on Blommaert’s concept of a “language ideological debate,” we explore how and why this particular debate seemingly ground to a halt without achieving any kind of tangible closure. In order to do so, we introduce Habermas’s notion of “legitimation cris…
New Perspectives on Language and Media
But her language skills shifted the family dynamics dramatically.”
Drawing on recent work on language ideologies as ‘sets of representations’ and ‘belief systems’ that are central not only to the construction of languages, but also their communities of users or publics, this paper explores the ways in which language is represented in relation to gender in two British newspapers, The Times and The Guardian. Based on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of a corpus of texts containing 96 instances of the term…
But her language skills shifted the family dynamics dramatically’
Drawing on recent work on language ideologies as ‘sets of representations’ and ‘belief systems’ that are central not only to the construction of languages, but also their communities of users or publics, this paper explores the ways in which language is represented in relation to gender in two British newspapers, The Times and the Guardian. Based on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of a corpus of texts containing 96 instances of the term…
Language in the media
I think motherhood for me was a bit like a double‐edged sword’
It is assumed in Western society that women want to become mothers. This desire is situated within the ideology of the ‘perfect mother’. However, feminists have highlighted contradictions between this ideology and the reality of mothering. A trend towards later motherhood has recently been identified. Delayed motherhood has been associated with a number of advantages such as a sense of psychological readiness, however this may mask some of its ne…
Spelling Trouble? Language, Ideology and the Reform of German Orthography
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo.
‘Sonst Kann Jeder Schreiben, Wie er will …’
When the recent reform of German orthography was challenged before the ‘Bundesverfassungsgericht’ in 1998, the judges emphasised that individuals within the wider speech community were free to continue writing as they pleased, even after 2005, when the seven‐year interim period for the reform's introduction came to an end. Yet in this regard the Court's ruling appeared to contradict the stated aims of the reformers that the new orthographic guide…
Introduction
Does My Bump Look Big in This?' the Meaning of Bodily Changes for First-time Mothers-to-be
Research on the impact of bodily changes during the transition to motherhood is contradictory. The aim of the study reported here was to provide more useful insights by employing an inductive qualitative approach. Interviews with six women in the latter stages of pregnancy were analysed drawing upon aspects of interpretative phenomenological analysis and Foucauldian discourse analysis. These analyses suggest generally negative consequence, and di…
Honoring the Whole Family of God
Honoring the Whole Family of God
Re-visiting `PC
From `Political Correctness' to `Politische Korrektheit
Discourses of `political correctness' (`PC') are (Anglo-)American in origin. But one of the aims of this special issue of Discourse & Society is to explore `PC' from the perspective of languages other than English and, in this article, we look at the case of German. After providing a brief discursive history of `political correctness' in Germany, we present an empirical study of `PC'-related discourses in a corpus of texts gathered from the newsp…
Language in the Media
"Examining the ways in which the media represents language-related issues and how it shapes and constructs what people think language is, this book offers a multilingual survey of the construction of language in and by the media. Tackling the big issues of identity, gender, youth, citizenship, politics and ideology across a range of mediums including television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the internet, Language in the Media brings together …
Does My Bump Look Big in This?' the Meaning of Bodily Changes for First-time Mothers-to-be
Research on the impact of bodily changes during the transition to motherhood is contradictory. The aim of the study reported here was to provide more useful insights by employing an inductive qualitative approach. Interviews with six women in the latter stages of pregnancy were analysed drawing upon aspects of interpretative phenomenological analysis and Foucauldian discourse analysis. These analyses suggest generally negative consequence, and di…
Who's misunderstanding whom? Sociolinguistics, public debate and the media
I think motherhood for me was a bit like a double‐edged sword’
It is assumed in Western society that women want to become mothers. This desire is situated within the ideology of the ‘perfect mother’. However, feminists have highlighted contradictions between this ideology and the reality of mothering. A trend towards later motherhood has recently been identified. Delayed motherhood has been associated with a number of advantages such as a sense of psychological readiness, however this may mask some of its ne…
Expressing yourself
Evaluating the audio-diary method in qualitative research
Purpose – Audio-diary methods are under-utilised in contemporary qualitative research. The purpose of this paper is to discuss participants and researchers’ experiences of using audio-diaries alongside semi-structured interviews to explore breastfeeding experiences in a short-term longitudinal study with 22 first-time mothers. Design/methodology/approach – The authors provide a qualitative content analysis of the participants’ feedback about thei…
A socially situated approach to inform ways to improve health and wellbeing
Mainstream health psychology supports neoliberal notions of health promotion in which self-management is central. The emphasis is on models that explain behaviour as individually driven and cognitively motivated, with health beliefs framed as the favoured mechanisms to target in order to bring about change to improve health. Utilising understandings exemplified in critical health psychology, we take a more socially situated approach, focusing on …
Teacher Development and Change in South Africa
Discusses the differential distribution of opportunities for professional development of science teachers in post-apartheid South Africa. Argues that northern/western ideas about teacher change and development are poorly suited to modeling practices. Proposes that evolutionary ideas on teacher change and development offer a more effective model of the constraints in teachers' work. (CMK)
Language politics and legitimation crisis in Sweden
Since the late 1990s the question of whether to ratify the status of Swedish as the “principal” language of Sweden by means of a language law has been subject to considerable public dispute. Drawing on Blommaert’s concept of a “language ideological debate,” we explore how and why this particular debate seemingly ground to a halt without achieving any kind of tangible closure. In order to do so, we introduce Habermas’s notion of “legitimation cris…
Language in the media
A Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking
Individual information seeking has become increasingly a critical determinant of the success of individual organizational members and of an organization as a whole. This study tests a Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking (CMIS) that contains three primary classes of variables: Antecedents, which provide the underlying imperatives to seek information; Information Carrier Characteristics, which shape the nature of specific intentions to seek …
A game of two halves? On men, football and gossip
‘Gossip’ has traditionally been viewed as a predominantly female discourse genre, not only folk‐linguistically, but also in the work of many feminist linguists, who have sought to reclaim the genre as a positive form of female communication. One rarely, if ever, hears male interaction referred to as gossip, and it is this assumption which is challenged in this paper. The paper explores the concept of football talk’ as a form of male gossip, based…
I see my section scar like a battle scar”
Though many women may be dissatisfied with their bodies, maternity represents a period when the body deviates significantly from Western beauty ideals. However, the developing corpus of literature is contradictory and there is limited knowledge about the longer-term implications of maternity. Further, much of the early postpartum literature focuses on body image, precluding consideration of broader embodiment and other potential issues. Taking ac…
From `Politically Correct Councillors' to `Blairite Nonsense
This article explores discourses of `political correctness' (`PC') in a corpus of articles gathered from three broadsheet newspapers in the UK between 1994 and 1999. Using the software package WordSmith Tools (Scott, 1999) two types of analysis were undertaken: first, a numerical count of so-called `PC'-related terms (`political correctness', `politically correct', etc.) in each of the three newspapers; and second, a compilation of the `keywords'…
On the origin of linguistic norms
This article explores one aspect of the many public protests surrounding the 1996 reform of German orthography: the first in a series of legal challenges, which was brought before the Federal Constitutional Court in May 1996. The first section begins by proposing how and why such protests can be usefully theorized in terms of Blommaert's (1999) concept of a "language ideological debate," and then describes the historical background essential for …
Young British Pakistani Muslim women’s involvement in higher education
This article explores the implications for identity through presenting a detailed analysis of how three British Pakistani women narrated their involvement in higher education. The increased participation of British South Asian women in higher education has been hailed as a major success story and is said to have enabled them to forge alternative, more empowering gender identities in comparison to previous generations. Drawing on generative narrat…
But her language skills shifted the family dynamics dramatically.”
Drawing on recent work on language ideologies as ‘sets of representations’ and ‘belief systems’ that are central not only to the construction of languages, but also their communities of users or publics, this paper explores the ways in which language is represented in relation to gender in two British newspapers, The Times and The Guardian. Based on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of a corpus of texts containing 96 instances of the term…
Re-visiting `PC
From `Political Correctness' to `Politische Korrektheit
Discourses of `political correctness' (`PC') are (Anglo-)American in origin. But one of the aims of this special issue of Discourse & Society is to explore `PC' from the perspective of languages other than English and, in this article, we look at the case of German. After providing a brief discursive history of `political correctness' in Germany, we present an empirical study of `PC'-related discourses in a corpus of texts gathered from the newsp…
The Cultural Politics of the 1998 Reform of German Orthography
In November 1995, after many years of debate by linguists and politicians, it was announced that a reform of German orthography would be officially introduced from 1998. No sooner had the reform been agreed, however, than widespread protest began, such that by 1996 the issue of how the German language should be written had evolved into a major constitutional wrangle requiring intervention on the part of the ‘Bundesverfassungsgericht’. This paper …
II. Discursive Constructions of the Pregnant Body
A game of two halves? On men, football and gossip
‘Gossip’ has traditionally been viewed as a predominantly female discourse genre, not only folk‐linguistically, but also in the work of many feminist linguists, who have sought to reclaim the genre as a positive form of female communication. One rarely, if ever, hears male interaction referred to as gossip, and it is this assumption which is challenged in this paper. The paper explores the concept of football talk’ as a form of male gossip, based…
A Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking
Individual information seeking has become increasingly a critical determinant of the success of individual organizational members and of an organization as a whole. This study tests a Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking (CMIS) that contains three primary classes of variables: Antecedents, which provide the underlying imperatives to seek information; Information Carrier Characteristics, which shape the nature of specific intentions to seek …
Threatened identities
The aim of the research described in this article was to investigate how women experience the transition to programmes of professional higher education. The investigation took place in a school of a British university where the professional areas chosen were social work and health care education. Most of the participants were new to the higher education system and were entering as mature students, but a few were making educational transitions and…
After schleswig‐holstein
(1999). After schleswig‐holstein: Implications of the “no” vote on the 1998 reform of German orthography. Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 158-174
Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us
Small differences in working patterns and social relationships can be indicators of deeper cultural differences. It is these non‐educational issues which point to the serious difficulty of making cross‐cultural comparisons. Data collected from Egyptian science teachers who have visited science classes in London are reported here. UK teachers may be habituated, or unaware of features of school life that are quite striking to the Egyptians as new o…
Language and Masculinity
List of Contributors. Introduction: Ulrike Hanna Meinhof and Sally Johnson (Bradford University and Lancaster University). 1. Theorizing Language and Masculinity: A Feminist Perspective: Sally Johnson (Lancaster University). 2. a Box--outa and a Taxinga : Roger Hewitt (Institute of Education, London). 3. Performing Gender Identity: Young Mena s Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity: Deborah Cameron (University of Strathclyde). 4. …
Teacher Development and Change in South Africa
Discusses the differential distribution of opportunities for professional development of science teachers in post-apartheid South Africa. Argues that northern/western ideas about teacher change and development are poorly suited to modeling practices. Proposes that evolutionary ideas on teacher change and development offer a more effective model of the constraints in teachers' work. (CMK)
The Cultural Politics of the 1998 Reform of German Orthography
In November 1995, after many years of debate by linguists and politicians, it was announced that a reform of German orthography would be officially introduced from 1998. No sooner had the reform been agreed, however, than widespread protest began, such that by 1996 the issue of how the German language should be written had evolved into a major constitutional wrangle requiring intervention on the part of the ‘Bundesverfassungsgericht’. This paper …
(Il)literacy and (im)morality in Bernhard Schlink’s The reader
This paper explores the theme of literacy in a recent novel, The reader , by the German author Bernhard Schlink. Drawing both on literary analysis and on the insights of the “new literacy studies”, the paper argues that the depiction of illiteracy contained in the novel is problematical in two main ways. First, there are a number of textual inconsistencies regarding the definition and portrayal of illiteracy. Second, the novel provides a question…
Who's misunderstanding whom? Sociolinguistics, public debate and the media
On the origin of linguistic norms
This article explores one aspect of the many public protests surrounding the 1996 reform of German orthography: the first in a series of legal challenges, which was brought before the Federal Constitutional Court in May 1996. The first section begins by proposing how and why such protests can be usefully theorized in terms of Blommaert's (1999) concept of a "language ideological debate," and then describes the historical background essential for …
Honoring the Whole Family of God
Honoring the Whole Family of God
Re-visiting `PC
From `Political Correctness' to `Politische Korrektheit
Discourses of `political correctness' (`PC') are (Anglo-)American in origin. But one of the aims of this special issue of Discourse & Society is to explore `PC' from the perspective of languages other than English and, in this article, we look at the case of German. After providing a brief discursive history of `political correctness' in Germany, we present an empirical study of `PC'-related discourses in a corpus of texts gathered from the newsp…
From `Politically Correct Councillors' to `Blairite Nonsense
This article explores discourses of `political correctness' (`PC') in a corpus of articles gathered from three broadsheet newspapers in the UK between 1994 and 1999. Using the software package WordSmith Tools (Scott, 1999) two types of analysis were undertaken: first, a numerical count of so-called `PC'-related terms (`political correctness', `politically correct', etc.) in each of the three newspapers; and second, a compilation of the `keywords'…
Does My Bump Look Big in This?' the Meaning of Bodily Changes for First-time Mothers-to-be
Research on the impact of bodily changes during the transition to motherhood is contradictory. The aim of the study reported here was to provide more useful insights by employing an inductive qualitative approach. Interviews with six women in the latter stages of pregnancy were analysed drawing upon aspects of interpretative phenomenological analysis and Foucauldian discourse analysis. These analyses suggest generally negative consequence, and di…
Spelling Trouble? Language, Ideology and the Reform of German Orthography
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo.
‘Sonst Kann Jeder Schreiben, Wie er will …’
When the recent reform of German orthography was challenged before the ‘Bundesverfassungsgericht’ in 1998, the judges emphasised that individuals within the wider speech community were free to continue writing as they pleased, even after 2005, when the seven‐year interim period for the reform's introduction came to an end. Yet in this regard the Court's ruling appeared to contradict the stated aims of the reformers that the new orthographic guide…
Introduction
I think motherhood for me was a bit like a double‐edged sword’
It is assumed in Western society that women want to become mothers. This desire is situated within the ideology of the ‘perfect mother’. However, feminists have highlighted contradictions between this ideology and the reality of mothering. A trend towards later motherhood has recently been identified. Delayed motherhood has been associated with a number of advantages such as a sense of psychological readiness, however this may mask some of its ne…
But her language skills shifted the family dynamics dramatically.”
Drawing on recent work on language ideologies as ‘sets of representations’ and ‘belief systems’ that are central not only to the construction of languages, but also their communities of users or publics, this paper explores the ways in which language is represented in relation to gender in two British newspapers, The Times and The Guardian. Based on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of a corpus of texts containing 96 instances of the term…
But her language skills shifted the family dynamics dramatically’
Drawing on recent work on language ideologies as ‘sets of representations’ and ‘belief systems’ that are central not only to the construction of languages, but also their communities of users or publics, this paper explores the ways in which language is represented in relation to gender in two British newspapers, The Times and the Guardian. Based on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of a corpus of texts containing 96 instances of the term…
Language in the media
Language politics and legitimation crisis in Sweden
Since the late 1990s the question of whether to ratify the status of Swedish as the “principal” language of Sweden by means of a language law has been subject to considerable public dispute. Drawing on Blommaert’s concept of a “language ideological debate,” we explore how and why this particular debate seemingly ground to a halt without achieving any kind of tangible closure. In order to do so, we introduce Habermas’s notion of “legitimation cris…
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