Gender in Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23709373 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matías Soich (0000-0003-3305-7380, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-7 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20053 |
| OpenAlex | W4416917757 |
| ISBN | 9781405198431 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Since their emergence in the 1970s decade, linguistic studies on gender have broadened their scope, from initial research concentrating on the talk of cisgender women as a response to social and scientific androcentrism, to the current attention to a nonbinary plurality of gender identities, experiences, and practices. Theoretical and methodological stances concerning the relationship between language, gender, and sexuality have also shifted in the past 50 years, from considering language use as a reflection of preexisting gender relations to studying gender and sexuality as discursive constructions strongly mediated by contextual and intersectional factors. This article begins by delineating the concepts of gender and discourse , explaining what it means to study them together, and posing some related questions. The next section briefly revisits some classic landmarks in the history of gender and discourse studies—namely, the “deficit,” “dominance,” and “difference” approaches to linguistic distinctions between cisgender women and men—and introduces the turn of this field toward a context‐sensitive, discursive constructionist approach. In another section, some fundamental contributions of third‐wave feminisms, queer, and decolonial studies to gender and discourse studies are succinctly exposed. The last section summarizes the most common trends and topics in the works published during the last decade and ends by suggesting three aspects considered important for future academic and social development.
Discourse analysis · Doing gender · Field (mathematics) · Human sexuality · Section (typography) · Social constructionism · Strict constructionism
| Highly cited | No |
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