Vol. 12 (2025): Out of the Norm?! Producing, Evaluating, and Perpetuating Gender Difference through Language Practice
In this thematic issue, we explore how linguistic practices serve as essential tools for the performative production of social categories, with a special focus on gender. Drawing on different theoretical frameworks and examples from case studies of various speech communities and social realms, the contributions examine how gender is constructed through iterative speech acts, establishing some of these constructions as the norm, while identifying (and often devaluating) others as deviations. In this exploration, we concentrate on three distinct manifestations of the performative potential of language practices: Language structure, indexicalities and discourse.
Published:
2025-12-23
