Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard

Os estudos de gênero cultural e a pesquisa feminista têm contribuído de diversas formas para a conscientização sobre questões de identidades de gênero, discriminação e exclusão. Na sociedade pós-moderna, no entanto, esses ‘ismos’ ainda estão presentes tanto em discursos institucionais como em privados. Em muitas partes do mundo, e no Brasil princip...

Notions of power in society are inseparable from questions of gender and sexuality. Although there have been improvements in relation to the ways women in positions of power are described in post-modernist societies, their representation in media discourses is still very dismissive. The semiotic resources used to membership them tend to rely on myt...

Exploring Language and Linguistics - edited by Natalie Braber September 2015

Cambridge Core - English Language and Linguistics: General Interest - Exploring Language and Linguistics - edited by Natalie Braber

This study investigates a series of news reports of a well-publicised crime in Brazil where a transgender person was involved and implicitly evaluated and condemned by the semiotic resources used in the reporting of the event. Theoretical tools from critical discourse analysis, systemic functional grammar and multimodal theory are applied to the da...

Age as an important identity dimension has been comparatively neglected within gender studies. Our paper concerns the semiotic representation of a role performed in the main by older women: That of 'grandmother', a social category particularly associated with ageing. To explore this, we draw on image banks, corpus data and other texts in order to d...

The aim of this paper is to open a discussion about multimodal work in the area of gender, language and discourse, and propose the kinds of multimodal approaches that are most appropriate for this task. Multimodality, we claim, is a rather fragmented and unconsolidated field where many of the tools and concepts applied by different researchers are...

The book offers important aspects of recent research in the areas of discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis and suggests practical applications to applied linguistics and translation studies.Topics include multiple modes of communication; discourse as interaction; the structure of written text; genre and text types; telling stories: new...

Linguagem em (Dis)curso-LemD, Tubarão, v. 4, n.esp, p. 11-33, 2004 1 INTRODUÇÃO Brinquedos são objetos semióticos que são produzidos e distribuídos globalmente por poderosas empresas multinacionais. Freqüentemente, transmitem mensagens para as crianças sobre o mundo social em que elas vivem. São produzidos como um sistema, que permite distinções qu...

This article, an expanded version of an oral presentation in 1999, uses corpus methodology as a research tool to investigate how social actors are classified in the public discourse of the media, with lexis as our point of entry. Our main focus is the nature of the labels which provide categorization, especially of gender relations. Our main claim...

Using a discursive/social semiotic perspective, tourism advertising is here investigated as a global discourse worth of critical investigation. Different identities are construed in texts for tourists and they are not purely reflections of personal identities. They are recontextualisations whose realisations and forms are conditioned by the social...

One of the most pervasive features of 'narrative texts' is the reporting of what was said. In this article, I propose to examine the representation of speech and its function in factual and fictional texts in order to consider the principles of organisation and selection that underlie any representation of speech and their stylistic effects. I will...

Characters and narrators, in fictional narrative discourse, exchange speech. Their interaction however is pseudo (see Sinclair, 1981), since it is not interactive in the real sense but imagined by an author, and it only happens intra-textually (the conversation only exists on a page of a book.) Composed dialogue therefore, has features that disting...

‘Identity trouble’ is a term that captures the increasing work that goes into defining and identifying ourselves, our practices, our communities, and our understanding of contemporary social life. With the innumerable social and technological changes of recent times, our sense of a stable identity anchored in familiar social class hierarchies and c...

The following two scenarios are typical of our experience as Brazilians living in Britain:1. A carpet fitter comes to the house. After the usual greetings, comes the inevitable classifying question: ‘Where are you from?’ 2. In the pub, with a couple of British friends. And the embarrassing assertion from one of them — ‘have you noticed that Carmen...

Este trabalho tem o objetivo discutir a questão do uso lingüístico e suas implicações ideológicas. Para analistas críticas do discurso, a linguagem não é só um instrumento de comunicação, mas uma poderosa arma, já que por ser um sistema simbólico profundamente arraigado em estruturas sociais, não só reflete como também enfatiza ideologias discrimin...

The papers in this issue were first presented at a meeting of critical discourse analysts, held at the University of Birmingham in April 1999. Critical discourse analysts are interested in the processes and products of discourse and their impact on social practices. Although its theoretical framework is eclectic and interdisciplinary, critical disc...

This paper presents a semiotic analysis of a key cultural artefact, the teddy bear. After introducing the iconography of the teddy bear, it analyses different kinds of stories to show how teddy bears are endowed with meaning in everyday life: stories from children's books, reminiscences by adults about their childhood teddy bears, and children's ac...

The topic of this chapter is the language of the news. As I finish writing it four days after the 11 September terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, reports of the events are being broadcast continuously. People from the four corners of the earth are glued to their television sets or radios following the development of event...

The topic of this chapter is the language of the news. As I finish writing it four days after the 11 September terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, reports of the events are being broadcast continuously. People from the four corners of the earth are glued to their television sets or radios following the development of event...

The material qualities and kinetic possibilities and limitations of toys and other objects for small children create a specific cultural microcosm. Within the confines of this environment, as facilitated and mediated by parents or other carers, children explore and develop their cognitive and motor abilities, and become specific kinds of socio-cult...