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Positioning Gender in Discourse introduces a newly emerging approach to the analysis of talk. Feminist Post-structuralist Discourse Analysis (FPDA) offers a means of analyzing the ways in which speakers construct their gendered identities within a complex web of power relations. The FPDA approach challenges the traditional feminist view that females are often disempowered within mixed-sex settings. The FPDA approach to analyzing talk shows that both male and female speakers are constantly shifting between positions of powerfulness and powerlessness - even within the same conversation. The methodology is demonstrated through a study of teenagers' conversations in class and a study of senior managers' discussions in business meetings, concluding with suggestions that while female speakers are often 'silenced' by dominant social discourses, they are far from uniformly powerless.

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• Full title: Positioning Gender in Discourse
• Subtitle: A Feminist Methodology
• Author: Judith Baxter
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 215
• EAN: 9780333986356
• ISBN: 0333986350
• ID: 04601066
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 435 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. September 2003

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