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Language, Sex and Social Structure

Analysing Discourses of Sexuality

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  • © 2012

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  1. Jodie Clark

    1. Sheffield Hallam University, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The Local Politics of Sexuality

    • Jodie Clark
    Pages 1-16

  3. Theorizing Social Structure

    • Jodie Clark
    Pages 17-39

  4. The Performative Production of Conceptual Systems

    • Jodie Clark
    Pages 41-64

  5. ‘Who’s Snogged a Girl, Who’s Slept with a Girl’: Sex Concepts and Individual Concepts

    • Jodie Clark
    Pages 65-83

  6. ‘Oh Yeah, She’s a Good Hockey Player’: Local, Emergent Social Structures

    • Jodie Clark
    Pages 85-110

  7. ‘And the Size of His &’ ‘Shush!’: Hockey, Achievement and the Silencing of Desire

    • Jodie Clark
    Pages 111-133

  8. ‘After University They’ll Go Back to Normal’: the Emancipatory Agenda

    • Jodie Clark
    Pages 135-143

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 145-157
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About this book

This book offers an innovative way of doing critical discourse analysis that focuses on the performatively produced concepts and social structures that support oppressive attitudes in a community. It draws upon ethnographic data from a women's field hockey club to examine players' homophobic attitudes towards lesbians on the team.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sheffield Hallam University, UK

    Jodie Clark

About the author

JODIE CLARK is Senior Lecturer in English Language at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Her research is focused on the development of ethnographic, communities-of-practice oriented approaches to critical discourse analysis. Jodie is a member of the Linguistic Politeness Research Group and the Language and Interaction Research Group at Sheffield Hallam University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Language, Sex and Social Structure

  • Book Subtitle: Analysing Discourses of Sexuality

  • Authors: Jodie Clark

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283986

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-27666-6Published: 13 November 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32533-7Published: 01 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-28398-6Published: 13 November 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 157

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Gender Studies

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