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Alpha MasculinityRepresenting Alpha: The Forms of Male Hegemony

Alpha Masculinity: Representing Alpha: The Forms of Male Hegemony [This chapter explores the lexical and semantic forms that enlanguage participants in the three corpus archives, focusing on Alpha, Beta, and Women. After identifying these and other discourse participants, attention turns to the description of nominal and pronominal realizations, modifiers and predicate forms, and other surface signifiers. From these data, a complex relationship between Alpha and two counter-positioned participants emerges: for heterosexual audiences, Alpha stands in complementary relation to Women and an oppositional one to Beta; the reverse is true for homosexual discourse practices. Across the three corpora, all participants are enlanguaged through form-meaning patterns that reify a stark gender divide, further distinguishing between celebrated and androdivergent masculinities. This is argued to be foundational to the hegemonic configurations of these discursive ecologies.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Alpha MasculinityRepresenting Alpha: The Forms of Male Hegemony

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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
119 –138
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-70470-4_5
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Abstract

[This chapter explores the lexical and semantic forms that enlanguage participants in the three corpus archives, focusing on Alpha, Beta, and Women. After identifying these and other discourse participants, attention turns to the description of nominal and pronominal realizations, modifiers and predicate forms, and other surface signifiers. From these data, a complex relationship between Alpha and two counter-positioned participants emerges: for heterosexual audiences, Alpha stands in complementary relation to Women and an oppositional one to Beta; the reverse is true for homosexual discourse practices. Across the three corpora, all participants are enlanguaged through form-meaning patterns that reify a stark gender divide, further distinguishing between celebrated and androdivergent masculinities. This is argued to be foundational to the hegemonic configurations of these discursive ecologies.]

Published: Apr 16, 2021

Keywords: Adjectives; Antonymy; Lexical form; Nouns; Predicates; Pronouns

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