Language, Sex and Social Structure Analysing Discourses of Sexuality [Paperback]

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.The Local Politics of Sexuality Theorizing Social Structure The Performative Production of Conceptual Systems 'Who's snogged a girl, who's slept with a girl': Sex Concepts and Individual Concepts 'Oh yeah, she's a good hockey player': Local, Emergent Social Structure 'And the size of his...' 'Shush!': Hockey, Achievement and the Silencing of Desire 'After university they'll go back to normal': The Emancipatory Agenda Appendix Bibliography IndexJODIE 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.