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Alpha MasculinityConstructing Alpha: Structures of Hegemony

Alpha Masculinity: Constructing Alpha: Structures of Hegemony [This chapter examines linguistic structures in the discourse corpora following a three-tiered approach. Examination distinguishes between clauses as exchanges, involving participant relations projected into morpho-syntactic structures; clauses as messages, implicating pragmatic patterns that enlanguage contextual meanings; and clauses as representations, incorporating concepts from Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday and Matthiessen, Introduction to functional Grammar. 4th ed. London: Routledge, 2004). At each level, data attest to the variable positioning of Alpha vis-à-vis Beta and Women. These positionings are argued to be structured realizations of hegemony: Alpha participants hold outsized power as possessors and behavers, their agency is directed against others, and they are holders of knowledge. Beta and Women, on the other hand, are enlanguaged as holders of emotion, negative or failed agency, and the locus of desire, inability, and need.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Alpha MasculinityConstructing Alpha: Structures of Hegemony

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-70469-8
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139 –186
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10.1007/978-3-030-70470-4_6
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[This chapter examines linguistic structures in the discourse corpora following a three-tiered approach. Examination distinguishes between clauses as exchanges, involving participant relations projected into morpho-syntactic structures; clauses as messages, implicating pragmatic patterns that enlanguage contextual meanings; and clauses as representations, incorporating concepts from Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday and Matthiessen, Introduction to functional Grammar. 4th ed. London: Routledge, 2004). At each level, data attest to the variable positioning of Alpha vis-à-vis Beta and Women. These positionings are argued to be structured realizations of hegemony: Alpha participants hold outsized power as possessors and behavers, their agency is directed against others, and they are holders of knowledge. Beta and Women, on the other hand, are enlanguaged as holders of emotion, negative or failed agency, and the locus of desire, inability, and need.]

Published: Apr 16, 2021

Keywords: Agency; Function; Hegemony; Modality; Pragmatics; Structure

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