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Alpha MasculinityEnlanguaging Alpha: Making Reality by Making Language

Alpha Masculinity: Enlanguaging Alpha: Making Reality by Making Language [This chapter explores enlanguaging, a heuristic that captures the making of reality by and through language, implicating the formal and structural mechanisms of linguistic performance. It begins by briefly overviewing antecedents to this concept, notably embodiment, and then situates enlanguaging within contemporary scholarship, with a focus on cognitive discourse analysis and cultural linguistics. It is argued that form, structure, and functional patterns concurrently construct and reflect the cognitive reality of discourse makers. In the case of Alpha male and related ideological concepts, linguistic and discursive data, when carefully described and interpreted, stand to offer evidence of the epistemological landscape of discourse authors and their intended audiences.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-70469-8
Pages
97 –117
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-70470-4_4
Publisher site
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Abstract

[This chapter explores enlanguaging, a heuristic that captures the making of reality by and through language, implicating the formal and structural mechanisms of linguistic performance. It begins by briefly overviewing antecedents to this concept, notably embodiment, and then situates enlanguaging within contemporary scholarship, with a focus on cognitive discourse analysis and cultural linguistics. It is argued that form, structure, and functional patterns concurrently construct and reflect the cognitive reality of discourse makers. In the case of Alpha male and related ideological concepts, linguistic and discursive data, when carefully described and interpreted, stand to offer evidence of the epistemological landscape of discourse authors and their intended audiences.]

Published: Apr 16, 2021

Keywords: Embodiment; Epistemology; Cognition; Linguistic relativism; Materialism; Ontology

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