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.
Language
English
Pages
176
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Release
December 24, 2012
ISBN
0230276660
ISBN 13
9780230276666
Language, Sex and Social Structure: Analysing Discourses of Sexuality
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.