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Promoting ‘Third Space’ Identities: A Case Study of the Teaching of Business Japanese [PDF]

PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2009
This paper argues that the teaching and learning of a foreign language involves students in the construction of their own identities between cultural and linguistic practices. The study looks at the interconnected practices of the content of the textbook,
Emi Otsuji, Chihiro Kinoshita Thomson
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Gender and Genre in Translation: The Linguistic Construction of Femininity in the American and French Editions of Early 1920s VOGUE

Linguaculture, 2023
This paper aims to bridge the gap between gender, genre and translation studies by taking an interdisciplinary approach across these research areas and employing some of the tools of corpus linguistics to provide a contrastive analysis of the linguistic construction of femininity in the American and French editions of early-1920s Vogue.
Annalisa Federici
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Femininity and Masculinity in Arabic Words: Gender Marking in Muslim Cosmology

Langkawi: Journal of The Association for Arabic and English, 2021
The Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) language strongly indicates the sociolinguistic phenomenon as it reflects gender marking in language use. This study aims to explore how the Arabic letters attributed to specific gender identities, how the gender ideology
Muassomah Muassomah, Wildana Wargadinata, Galuh Nur Rohmah, Rohmani Nur Indah, Siti Masitoh, Istiadah Istiadah, Irwan Abdullah   +6 more
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Linguistic construction of gendered lives in Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls”

Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies, 2023
In Alice Munro’s short story “Boys and Girls,” society’s involvement in creating gendered lives is narrated by an eleven-year-old girl. To provide a linguistic analysis of her psychosexual development shaped by her family, in this study, all utterances are analyzed by employing a theoretical framework composed of Austin’s (1962) Speech Act Theory and ...
Sarac Durgun, Hatice Sezgi, Uzun, Kıvılcım, Arikan, Arda   +2 more
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Construction of Gender in Linguistic Signs in Selected Kenyan Secondary School English Textbooks

Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature, 2023
In countries such as Kenya, where textbooks are a core component of classroom experience, the materials have the potential to shape socially enacted identities. Gender representation via linguistic signs in textbooks can have a substantial impact on how students perceive men and women in society.
Fellis N. Mutune, Geoffrey Mokua Maroko, Alice Wanjira Kiai   +2 more
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Gender Representation: A Survey of Public Sector English Textbooks of Grades 7 and 8, KP, Pakistan

Journal of Communication and Cultural Trends, 2023
Gender representation in textbooks helps to develop the students' perceptions of gender construction.  It gradually becomes ingrained in students, and they develop their perspectives on gender in society with the help of these textbooks.
Turab Hussain, Hazrat Umar, Iftikhar Khan, Irum Batool   +3 more
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«Rompo tus miembros uno a uno» (Pablo Neruda). De la reificación a la destrucción en la iconografía literaria de la amada

Cuadernos de Trabajo Social, 2006
Violence exerted against women occurs in a context which makes it possible and constant, and becomes cognitively accepted as «natural» only because of a series of hegemonic cultural practices which regu- late our behaviour, desire, tastes and needs. Some
Mercedes Bengoechea
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Gender And Language Variation In The Community Of Chlef : The Relevance Of The Community Of Practice Perspective.

Al-Lisaniyyat, 2020
A plethora of gender research have considered the community of practice (cofp) framework as an analytical tool which serves for a penetrating analysis of variation.
Amina Babou
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Zur Genderdebatte in europäischen Sprachen – ohne ideologische Überfrachtung [PDF]

Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław
The subject of this review article is an anthology edited by Vincent Balnat and Barbara Kaltz. It is entitled “Genus and Gender in European Languages. History and Present” and was published in 2025 by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag in Tübingen.
Rafał Szubert
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Performative masculinities in Basketmouth’s stand-up comedy

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2021
Stand-up comedy is the performance of culture and identities. The aim of this paper is to explore the performance of gender identity in Nigerian stand-up comedy. Specifically, the analysis focuses on the discourse construction of manliness in the comedy
Ibukun Filani
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