Innovations and Challenges: Women, Language and Sexism - 9780367133719

Taylor & Francis

Innovations and Challenges: Women, Language and Sexism brings together an outstanding collection of essays from internationally recognised researchers to recontextualise some of the questions raised by feminist thinkers 40 years ago. By taking linguistically mediated violence as a central topic, this collection\u2019s main objective is to explore the different and subtle ways sexism and violence are materialised in discursive practices. In doing so, this book:\n\n--Takes a multi-stranded investigation into the linguistic and semiotic representations of sexism in societies from an applied linguistic and semiotic perspective; \n--Combines critical discourse analysis, multimodality, interactional sociolinguistics and corpus methodologies to look at language, visuals and semiotic resources in the context of consumerist culture; \n--Examines the conflicted position of women and the discourses of discrimination that still exist in every strand of modern societies; \n--Contextualises pervas.