Gender on the screen: a public point of view of private writing

Abstract: This paper examines the public and private nature of personal weblogs written by British and Spanish teenagers. In particular, it reports on the first stage of a long-term research project about the effects of the anti-sexist language policies and the process of feminisation of the language in the media. Given that the linguistic expression of online female gender identity includes a wide range of variables, I shall concentrate on a selection of pragmatic meanings of informative and directive utterances in British and Spanish female teenagers’ narrations of their love-life. In doing so, I shall highlight the fight between the persistence of traditional patriarchal feminine behaviours and the growing appearance of culturallybased androgynous behaviour patterns in both British and Spanish societies.

• Autores: García Gómez, Antonio
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2008
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Repositorio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/55333
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/55333; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/50696/
• Palabra clave: 3 Ciencias sociales / Social sciences; Gender identity and language; Politeness strategies; Androgyny and femininity; Self and other presentation strategies; Identidad de género y lenguaje; Estrategias de cortesía verbal; Masculinización y feminidad; Estrategias de auto-presentación
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional