Professional development in Applied Linguistics: A guide to success for graduate students and early career facultyLuke Plonsky (ed.) (2020)Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 204ISBN: 9789027207111 (hbk)ISBN: 9789027207128 (pbk)ISBN: 9789027260970 (eBook)
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Graphic politics in Eastern India: Script and the quest for autonomyNishaant Choksi (2021)London: Bloomsbury Academic. Pp. 224ISBN: 9781350215924 (pbk)ISBN: 9781350159587 (hbk)ISBN: 9781350159594 (Ebook)ISBN: 9781350159600 (Epub)
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Like other young people, and indeed everyone all over the world, Kenyan university students find reasons to talk about sex and sexual intercourse. In doing this, they naturally find themselves constrained by the societal dictates, which preclude direct reference within the sexual domain, thereby restricting themselves to the creative, euphemistic, and periphrastic terms. This article reports the findings of a study conducted to determine how Kenyan university students, in their efforts to engage in sexual discourse, circumvent such societal and cultural dictates, which prohibit direct sexual reference. Using a Sexual Synonyms Scale (SSS) as the main research instrument, this study surveys how lexical choices in sexual discourse shift in different contexts. The study adopts the tenets of Cognitive Sociolinguistics to attempt to understand why Kenyan university students make the lexical choices regarding sexual discourse they do. The study reports that lexical choices in sexual discourse is constrained by various sociological, demographic, and linguistic factors. It is further argued that an understanding of how young people view sexual intercourse is reflected in the lexical choices that they make as they talk about their daily sexual exploits, aspirations, and fantasies.
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This issue examines the role of language and/or cultural expression in discourses around gender and sexuality. We explore the expressions used to describe people in relation to their gender and sexual configurations and practices. The contributions are from scholars writing from West and Eastern African perspectives, and the findings are useful for ongoing discourse and for informing policy direction. We first present an introduction to this issue, where we highlight the problematic areas of gender and sexuality research in Africa and the aim of the study, taking into consideration how spaces in language expressions make us gendered and sexual beings. We also discuss some historical research trajectories in African sexuality, followed by some future prospects. We conclude with a brief overview of each of the papers in the issue.
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Eyo O. Mensah, Utomobong Nsebot, Eyamba Mensah, Lucy Ushuple, Romanus Aboh
This article explores the layers of signification and interpretive frames of female adolescents’ nuanced experiences of virginity loss in heterosexual relationships in Akpabuyo and Bakassi Local Government Areas of Cross River State in southeastern Nigeria. This study is theoretically anchored in the social constructionist perspective of doing gender, which conceptualises it as a routine accomplishment embedded in everyday interaction. Drawing on qualitative data using semi-structured interviews with 25 female adolescents who were purposively sampled, we investigate the social, cultural, and structural factors that informed participants’ sexual debut and romantic life trajectories from their nuanced perspectives and experiences. We investigate virginity-based discursive subjectivities under three thematic tropes: coercive/consensual sex, stigma, and patriarchal affordances. The results, based on linguistic evidence, show that participants have ambivalent perceptions of virginity loss and/or preservation: while some were overwhelmed with guilt and tended to align with traditional prescriptions about female sexuality, others viewed it as an extension of patriarchal subjugation of women and interpreted their experience in terms of agency and resistance. In this way, virginity loss discourses provide a prominent site for doing or undoing gender. The study recommends intervention programmes for young rural women to reduce the risk of unplanned pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and HIV/AIDS acquisition as a result of their lack of sexual competence, economic security, and educational empowerment, which have contributed to their vulnerability, victimhood, and exposure to unhealthy sexual practices.
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This article offers an original analysis of the sociocultural and political situation of same-sex (LGB) and queer (Q) people in Ghana, especially in the context of political repression. There is a lack of literature on Ghana’s LGBQ politics in various edited collections on African sexualities, so this article fills the gap from anthropological and sociological perspectives, emphasising the cultural-sociolinguistic nuances of gender and sex as well as the politics of same-sex and the contradictions in them. Drawing on personal biographies and media reports of power dynamics in local and (post)colonial frames of reference to LGBQ rights, I argue that regardless of the cultural and moral antics in local politics that bedevil the LGBQ community, LGBQ rights cannot achieve any enduring success if discourse continues to be spearheaded by the West since the devil is in the details. Therefore, the need to reconsider the role of the West in local discourse about LGBQ rights and to promote narratives that highlight indigenous cultural and character strengths (e.g., neighbourliness, love, work ethic, hard work, philanthropy, and honesty) in celebrating diversity and individual expression has never been more imperative. This could be a critical mass to revolutionise Ghanaian queerness and related West African homophobic and xenophobic behaviour. At the same time, the queer and LGB communities should be sensitive to the cultural milieu in which they operate and rethink ways of organising because culture and the moral community can be agentic depending upon knowledge pathways and continued resistance may lead to backlash.
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There is an emerging Ugandan queer writing tradition that adopts an activist stance to imagine an alternative Ugandan queer subjecthood beyond popular and polarising perspectives of this subjectivity that were instantiated by the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014. This emerging archive of Ugandan writing, often deploying the short fiction genre, weaves intricate tales of queer Uganda that sidestep the censorship of an ostracised sexuality deemed sinful, dangerous, and unUgandan to claim the agency and humanity of Ugandan homosexuals. While this archive of Ugandan queer short fiction has attracted significant critical attention from scholars such as Edgar Fred Nabutanyi (2017, 2018), Ken Junior Lipenga (2014) and Ben de Souza (2020), who focus on the political activism of these texts in Ugandan sexuality debates, little critical attention has been paid to how writers deploy sociolinguistic tools to empower their characters to author their agency and life experiences as same-sex loving Ugandans. Using sociolinguistic discursive tools, I refer to a textuality that includes illocutionary techniques such as letter writing, dialogue, and stream of consciousness that subversively empower excluded and muted subjects to articulate their essence and humanity. Deploying textual analysis of selected short stories, their analyses, and Ugandan queer theoretical treatises, I read Monica Arac de Nyeko’s ‘Jambula tree’ (2006) Beatrice Lamwaka’s ‘Pillar of love’ (2016) and Anthea Paleo’s ‘Picture frame’ (2013) using a sociolinguistic lens to unveil how the selected writers’ subversion of patriarchal tropes of an amorous letter, an ideal heterosexual family, and a romantic date critique the ostracisation of a sexual orientation.
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Urban contact dialects and language change: Insights from the Global North and SouthPaul Kerswill and Heike Wiese (eds) (2022)New York: Routledge. Pp. 368ISBN: 9781138596092 (hbk)ISBN: 9780429487958 (eBook)
paul Kerswill和Heike Wiese(编)(2022)纽约:Routledge。Pp. 368ISBN: 9781138596092 (hbk)ISBN: 9780429487958(电子书)
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