the shift to discourse the discursive construction of gendered identities
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This document provides an overview of discourse and gendered identities. It discusses how gender is produced through discourse in dynamic and context-specific ways. Discourse is defined in various ways across disciplines but generally refers to patterns of language use and social interaction. Gender identities are discursively constructed through recognizable discourses around masculinity and femininity. These discourses can support and conflict with each other, represent ways of thinking and doing, and enact social power dynamics. Feminist approaches to discourse analysis examine how gender ideology and power relations are reproduced and contested in representations and social relationships.
the shift to discourse the discursive construction of gendered identities
- 1. PRESENTED TO MA’AM RAHAT CH. SUBJECT : LANGUAGE AND GENDER CHAPTER NO : 03 The Shift to discourse: the discursive construction of gendered identities Presented by Abdul Rehman
- 2. (GEE 1989:6-7) What is important not language and surely not grammar, but saying –(writing)- doing- being valuing- believing- combinations
- 3. DISCOURSE AND DISCOURSES Gender is produced in discourse , in variable ,dynamic and context situated ways The way in which people and group are represented may not be all obvious The term discourse is used in different ways across academic disciplines and is often left undefined vague or confusing
- 4. 1-Basic level: connected sentence or utterances 2-Linguistically : Patterns and rules of coherence 3-Sociologically: Interaction with certain social function 4-Social and critical theory perspective : Cultural ways of thinking and doing
- 5. DEFINITIONS Meaning in context Real social Situations Spoken and written language Text in context Social and ideological practice
- 6. CHARACTERISTICS 1-Discourses are recognizable and meaningful Pre-exist their users boys = strength girls = beauty toys and clothes
- 7. 2- DISCOURSES CAN BE SUPPORTING AS WELL AS COMPETING OR CONFLICTING Some discourses are mutually supporting For example : heterosexuality Mother’s Positive and pride feeling for their children Some discourses are conflicting as well Mother’s negative feelings about their children
- 8. 3- DISCOURSES REPRESENT AND CONSTITUTE WAYS OF THINKING AND DOING How we see the world Process of Changing perception of experience Changing of roles and identities
- 9. 4- DISCOURSES ARE IDEOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL POWER IS ACTED OUT THROUGH THEM Inherently ideological certain view points and values of others construct position of power and powerlessness for participant Marginalization Of women’s writing Discourse of Female emotionality helps construct position for women in term of limiting their access to public debates and decisions that matter most
- 10. 5- DISCOURSES EXIST IN RELATION TO OTHER DISCOURSES Feminist discourses exist in relation to discourses about patriarchy, Men’s domination of public life,domestic violence and many more Interdiscursivity/Multivoicedness/heteroglossia/polyphon y( discourses appearing within discourses and mixing together of discourses) Part of network as part- time father supported by father as baby entertainer , father as mother bumbling assistant and father as line manager
- 11. WHETHER AND HOW ,WE CAN IDENTIFY DISCOURSES? Sunderland claims that discourses are discribable and nameable through a process of identifying their traces discourse cues and linguistic features First traces content of spoken or written text Then actual interaction (interpretative)
- 12. ANALYSING DISCOURSE broad term used across disciplines Conversational Analysis (C.A) :Focuses on interaction and social categories( man or women) Critical Discourse Analysis( CDA): go beyond the text( social relation of power, social issues
- 13. FPDA:Feminist post structuralist Discourse Analysis( combination of analytical concepts and assumptions shared by social constructionist feminism,post structiral feminism and CDA FCDA: Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis( how gender ideology and relations of power are reproduced , negotiated and contested in representations of social practices in social relationship between people and people’s social and personal identities in text and talk
- 14. GENDERED DISCOURSE That say something about women and men girls and boys their gendered actions Gendered social practices Articulated by both Women and men
- 15. SUNDERLAND OVERVIEWS A RANGE OF GENDERED DISCOURSES Discourses of gender differences heterosexuality discourses discourses of gender and employment opportunities discourses of menopause discourses of self disclosure discourses of fatherhood
- 16. GENDER IDENTITIES Who we are is neither singular nor fixed Discursive accomplishment of gender: people with their linguistics and non linguistics behaviour produce priori identities as women and men in particular historical and cultural locations. becoming gendered and doing gender is dynamic process that is never complete. Accplishment helps us to see more clearly the links between femaleness and femininity.
- 17. PERFORMING IDENTITY Gender performance Example of female sex workers in California Example of American college students
- 18. FEMINIST LINGUISTICS : CURRENT TREND GAL(1995) observes the study of language and gender is very much enhanced by focusing on : On every day practices ideologies about man and woman that frame these practices
- 19. The web of power relations created by ideologies operates on Micro level and Macro level • Macro level( with in organisation and classroom) • Micro level(individual in specific context e.g Managers , students and teachers) The analysis of discourse at micro and macro levels is based on understanding of text and meanings in context.
- 20. COFP( COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE Aggregate of people who come together around mutual engagent in an endeavour. We participate in multiple cofp’s
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