{"title":"Give it to her","authors":"Lucía Sanz-Valdivieso","doi":"10.1075/jls.21020.san","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n Pornography is commonly criticized for allegedly representing and promoting sexual dominance of men over women.\n Studies have shown varying results, with no scientific consensus reached on the matter. To contribute to the discussion with\n empirical discourse analysis evidence, I examine the linguistic choices reflected in a corpus of erotic novels to test whether\n there are gendered patterns of agency in the representation of sexual interactions. The construal of prominence is correlated to\n the notion of agency to find which participant specifies the trajector status and agent role in every relational expression.\n Results show that male participants take prominence over females in an overwhelming majority of the cases, while expressions with\n plural agency are marginal. The approach of this paper, combining cognitive grammar with linguistic participation roles, provides\n comprehensive and realistic results by attempting to operationalize agency as the linguistic expression of a particular cognitive\n pathway.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.21020.san","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Pornography is commonly criticized for allegedly representing and promoting sexual dominance of men over women.
Studies have shown varying results, with no scientific consensus reached on the matter. To contribute to the discussion with
empirical discourse analysis evidence, I examine the linguistic choices reflected in a corpus of erotic novels to test whether
there are gendered patterns of agency in the representation of sexual interactions. The construal of prominence is correlated to
the notion of agency to find which participant specifies the trajector status and agent role in every relational expression.
Results show that male participants take prominence over females in an overwhelming majority of the cases, while expressions with
plural agency are marginal. The approach of this paper, combining cognitive grammar with linguistic participation roles, provides
comprehensive and realistic results by attempting to operationalize agency as the linguistic expression of a particular cognitive
pathway.