Sökning: "queer linguistics"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade orden queer linguistics.
1. ‘Safeguarding moral decency’: A Queer discourse analysis of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s sexualized discourses and boundary-making in the Russian-Ukraine war
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : The thesis investigates discourses on sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression in national addresses performed by Russian President Vladimir Putin since the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It applies an embedded approach of Critical Discourse Analysis and Queer Linguistics to disseminate how such discourses are produced by Putin in the war. LÄS MER
2. The Power of Words : How the use of words reflects societal opinion
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraSammanfattning : This essay examines the ways that the underlying meaning of the keywords queer and gay had changed between, and during, the periods of 1989-1991, 1999-2001 and 2009-2011 within the medium of written American English as collected by the Corpus of Historical American English across multiple written genres. The examination of the two chosen keywords was conducted by sorting the list-results of respective COHA queries into each period, and then conducted by a systematic sorting of the query results into one out of four categories depending on how the keywords were primed, framed and used. LÄS MER
3. Do Homophobic Slurs Reinforce Heteronormativity? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Homophobic Slurs and Epithets in Film
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerSammanfattning : Homophobic slurs can reinforce the hegemonic view of heteronormativity, namelythat heterosexuality is the preferable sexuality (Peake, 2013). The aim of this study was toexamine whether a societal heteronormative ideal is strengthened or created by the presenceof homophobic slurs in film scenes, and also whether or not this has changed over time. LÄS MER
4. QUEER JAPANESE. The modern-day language usage of Japanese LGBTQ+ people
Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerSammanfattning : Gendered language is a well-known feature of Japanese, but how is it applied by a speaker who does not fit the cisgender or heteronormative standards in society? In a 2010 study, Hideko Abe published a book titled Queer Japanese, which addressed this exact question. Although incredibly thorough and informative, the book is now over a decade old, and the findings may no longer be accurate. LÄS MER
5. Language, Gender, and Sexuality in EFL Textbooks : The Case of Greek Public Secondary Schools
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : The past few decades have been marked by increasing awareness of issues pertaining to gender and sexuality, since both concepts have started being treated as continuums or spectrums, rather than as binaries. Therefore, the fields of gender and queer linguistics have been growing in significance, in an effort to identify underlying ideologies and biases in language, and to challenge them. LÄS MER