Public Discourses of Gay Men
Public Discourses of Gay Men

Author: Paul Baker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-02-01

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1134271565

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Queer linguistics has only recently developed as an area of study; however academic interest in this field is rapidly increasing. Despite its growing appeal, many books on ‘gay language’ focus on private conversation and small communities. As such, Public Discourses of Gay Men represents an important corrective, by investigating a variety of sources in the public domain. A broad range of material, including tabloid newspaper articles, political debates on homosexual law and erotic narratives are used in order to analyse the language surrounding homosexuality. Bringing together queer linguistics and corpus linguistics the text investigate how gay male identities are constructed in the public domain.

Public Discourses of Gay Men
Public Discourses of Gay Men

Author: Paul Baker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-02

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1134271573

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Queer linguistics, an aspect of sociolinguistics is brought together with corpus linguistics to investigate the way gay male identities are constructed in the public domain.

Public Discourses About Homosexuality and Religion in Europe and Beyond
Public Discourses About Homosexuality and Religion in Europe and Beyond

Author: Marco Derks

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-10-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 303056326X

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This volume addresses three things many people do not discuss candidly with strangers or mere acquaintances: God, sex, and politics. These can easily become topics of fierce debate, particularly when taken together, as has been the case with same-sex marriage legislation, the Vatican’s criticism of “gender ideology,” or the repeatedly asserted claim that Islam, homosexuality, and gender equality are essentially incompatible. This volume investigates what is at stake in these constructions of religion and homosexuality in public discourses. Starting with the Netherlands as a special case study, it proceeds with contributions on other predominantly postsecular countries in central, northern, and southern Europe as well as several postcommunist and postcolonial countries “beyond Europe.” Combining contemporary and historical perspectives and approaches from both the humanities and the social sciences, the contributors explore how national and European identities are constructed and contested in debates on religion and homosexuality. Chapter 2 and Chapter 8 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Discourse Studies in Public Communication
Discourse Studies in Public Communication

Author: Eliecer Crespo-Fernández

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2021-04-15

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 9027260052

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The collection of articles in Discourse Studies in Public Communication illustrates that public communication is a fascinating, evidence-based storehouse for research in discourse analysis. The contributions to this volume — in the spheres of political rhetoric, gender and sexuality, and corporate and academic communication — provide good evidence of contemporary social structure, social phenomena, and social issues. In this way, following the parameters of different analytical frameworks (critical discourse analysis, cognitive metaphor theory, appraisal theory, multimodality, etc.), the contributors address not only the linguistic aspects of texts but also, and more importantly, the cultural and cognitive dimensions of public communication in a range of real life communicative contexts and kinds of discourse. Although the volume is addressed, first and foremost, to readers with diverse interests in English linguistics, it may also prove valuable to scholars in other non-linguistic research fields like communication studies, social theory, political science, or psychology.

Rhetorical Secrets
Rhetorical Secrets

Author: Davin Allen Grindstaff

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2014-05-15

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0817357815

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Gay male identity as a product of rhetoric and public discourse in modern America.

The New Public Health
The New Public Health

Author: Alan Petersen

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1996-12-30

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1446264416

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Petersen and Lupton focus critically on the new public health, assessing its implications for the concepts of self, embodiment and citizenship. They argue that the new public health is used as a source of moral regulation and for distinguishing between self and other. They also explore the implications of modernist belief in the power of science and the ability of experts to solve problems through rational administrative means that underpin the strategies and rhetoric of the new public health.

Gay Community Survival in the New Millennium
Gay Community Survival in the New Millennium

Author: Michael R. Botnick

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780789007919

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Gay Community Survival in the New Millenium examines the notion of community from several different perspectives focusing on the imagined, the structural, and the emotive. You will explore a theoretical overview and you will peek into the moral discourses that frame gay community, the rift between HIV-positive and HIV negative gay men, and how Israeli gays seek their place in the public sphere. This informative book takes you on a tour of the Israeli gay liberation movement and explores the need for social support amoung gays in a community that is stigmatized and divided by AIDS.

Stigma: An Ethnography Of Mental Illness And Hiv/aids In China
Stigma: An Ethnography Of Mental Illness And Hiv/aids In China

Author: Jinhua Guo

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2016-02-04

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1938134826

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Based on two and a half years of fieldwork in China, this book examines the cultural genesis and social mechanisms of stigma related to mental illness and HIV/AIDS in China. It also explores the bio-politics on stigma through detailed description of social exclusion experienced by people suffering from mental illness or HIV/AIDS and by systematic comparison on stigma between the two illnesses in the Chinese context. Through the comparison, this book describes the micro socio-dynamic process of stigmatization in the local Chinese context, highlights the identity transformation accompanying the illness trajectory the patients and their families have lived through, and ultimately connects Chinese society and its community-centered social value system and institutional arrangement to the stigma associated with mental illness and HIV/AIDS.

Murder, the Media, and the Politics of Public Feelings
Murder, the Media, and the Politics of Public Feelings

Author: Jennifer Petersen

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2011-08-12

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0253005213

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In 1998, the horrific murders of Matthew Shepard -- a gay man living in Laramie, Wyoming -- and James Byrd Jr. -- an African American man dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas -- provoked a passionate public outrage. The intense media coverage of the murders made moments of violence based in racism and homophobia highly visible and which eventually led to the passage of The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in 2009. The role the media played in cultivating, shaping, and directing the collective emotional response toward these crimes is the subject of this gripping new book by Jennifer Petersen. Tracing the emotional exchange from news stories to the creation of law, Petersen calls for an approach to media and democratic politics that takes into account the role of affect in the political and legal life of the nation.

Queering Public Address
Queering Public Address

Author: Charles E. Morris

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9781570036644

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Ten noted rhetorical critics disrupt the silence regarding nonnormative sexualities in the study of American historical discourse and upend the heteronormativity that governs much of rhetorical history. Enacting both political and radical visions, these scholars articulate the promises of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender public address. The contributors consider figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harvey Milk, Marlon Riggs, and Lorraine Hansberry; and issues as diverse as collective identity, nineteenth-century semiotics of gender and sexuality, the sexual politics of the Harlem Renaissance, psychiatric productions of the queer, and violence-induced traumatic styles.