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Papers by Rodrigo Borba
Gender and Language, 2024
This foreword by the journal editors of Gender and Language announces the special issue “Cultivat... more This foreword by the journal editors of Gender and Language announces the special issue “Cultivating Trans Linguistics” (December 2024), guest edited by Lal Zimman, Cedar Brown, and deandre miles-hercules. Outlining the steep global rise of far-right ideologies targeting trans and nonbinary people since beginning their term in 2020, the editors set out the urgent need for the field to amplify trans-affirming, cis-critical theories and analytical perspectives. See the full issue here: https://utppublishing.com/toc/gl/current
Sexuality Policy Watch, 2022
Nana Soares é jornalista e pesquisadora com foco em gênero e sexualidade.
Sexuality Policy Watch, 2022
Termos ambíguos do debate político atual: pequeno dicionário que você jovem não sabia que existia... more Termos ambíguos do debate político atual: pequeno dicionário que você jovem não sabia que existia Autoras e Autores "IDEOLOGIA" E "MARXISMO CULTURAL" Sonia Corrêa é ativista e pesquisadora nos temas de gênero, sexualidade, saúde e direitos humanos desde a década de 1970. Com Richard Parker, coordena o Observatório de Sexualidade e Política/Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), um programa da Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (ABIA). Coordena o projeto de pesquisa transnacional "Políticas Antigênero na América Latina" e foi pesquisadora visitante do Departamento de Gênero da London School of Economics. "POLITICAMENTE CORRETO" Nana Soares é jornalista e pesquisadora com foco em gênero e sexualidade.
Conspiracy Theory Discourses, 2022
The formula "gender ideology" has recently gained political traction in several countries. This c... more The formula "gender ideology" has recently gained political traction in several countries. This chapter investigates its conspiracist discursive infrastructure by probing two corpora of far-right media from Brazil and the US. Analysis indicates that "gender ideology" is framed within semantic realms of manipulation, puppeteering, falseness, and danger. It also suggests that anti-gender rhetoric acts as an all-encompassing narrative whereby a cohort of inchoate but ideologically interlinked conspiracy theories are lumped together in a seemingly coherent whole. Comparing datasets from two countries empirically illustrates how anti-gender rhetoric crosses transnational borders and adapts to local specifics along the way.
Enregistering "gender ideology": the emergence and circulation of a transnational anti-gender language
Journal of Language and Sexuality, 2022
Mobilizations against gender equality and sexual diversity have gained political traction globall... more Mobilizations against gender equality and sexual diversity have gained political traction globally despite their hyperbolic modes of action and conspiracist rhetoric. These anti-gender campaigns rally around “gender ideology,” a trope used to anathemize feminist and LGBTIQ+ activism/scholarship. This paper argues that anti-genderism is a register – a conventionalized aggregate of expressive forms and enactable person-types – of which “gender ideology” is the most famous shibboleth. The paper shows how inchoate collections of words, modes of action, and images of people (i.e. signs) have been enregistered into the cohesive but heterogeneous whole of anti-genderism through semiotic processes of clasping, relaying, and grafting (Gal, 2018; 2019). The paper offers a sociolinguistic analysis of anti-genderism to understand the challenges it poses to the enfranchisement of women, queer, trans, and nonbinary people.
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2021
Global Discourse, 2021
In both popular culture and academe, renewed interest in conspiracy theories (CTs) has followed i... more In both popular culture and academe, renewed interest in conspiracy theories (CTs) has followed in the wake of the recent global rise of far-right extremism. Examples abound: allegations that Hilary Clinton ran a child-trafficking ring from a Washington pizza parlour gained momentum during the 2016 US elections; survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018 have been portrayed as crisis actors hired to advance gun-prohibition policies; QAnon supporters aver that Donald Trump has defended US democracy against the 'deep state', namely political and economic elites that supposedly control democratically elected governments from behind the scenes; more recently, voter fraud accusations were raised to counter Trump's defeat in the 2020 presidential election; and during the coronavirus pandemic, Trump has furthered theories that the virus was created in a laboratory in China to advance its plans of economic domination, while in Brazil Jair Bolsonaro has championed smear campaigns against health authorities and the media, undermining their recommendations for masks and physical distancing. This overlap between CTs and far-right extremism is not that surprising for at least two reasons. On the one hand, CTs flourish in moments of stark social change because they serve as explanatory devices to make sense of events that threaten existing worldviews (Douglas et al, 2019). On the other, studies seem to suggest that right-wingers (and authoritarian ones at that) are more prone to foster conspiracy thinking due to their need to manage uncertainty which, in turn, provides grounds for extremism (Richey, 2017). Defined as 'allegations that powerful people and organizations are plotting together in secret to achieve sinister ends through deception of the public' (Wood and Douglas, 2013:1), CTs offer right-wing authoritarian
Social Semiotics, 2021
Jair Bolsonaro, the unapologetically homophobic and ultraconservative Brazilian president, manage... more Jair Bolsonaro, the unapologetically homophobic and ultraconservative Brazilian president, managed to emerge from the margins of the political system and gained electoral momentum during the impeachment hearing against Dilma Rousseff in 2016. The hearing, which ultimately demoted the first female president of the country, epitomizes the current affective polarization of Brazil in which sexual dissidence plays an important role. This paper discusses the politics of discourse, affect and sexuality which has drawn Bolsonaro and his far-right ideologies into greater political relief. To do so, I will focus on the scene in which Jean Wyllys, a human rights activist and the only openly gay congressmember at the time, spat on Bolsonaro. Wyllys' misdemeanor caused a commotion in the country and was recontextualized in several venues such as memes, social media, op-eds, YouTube parodies etc. This paper investigates the intense circulation of Wyllys' actions and how it responds to and takes issue with the larger affective scenario of the country. I analyze the socio-semiotic life of Wyllys' spit by tracking its textual trajectory with a view to discussing the performativity of disgust and the forging of political (in)sensibilities with regards to gender and sexuality in contemporary Brazil.
Anglistica AION, 2020
Notes on Contributors 'faces': a conservative, jingoistic, 'warfare' visage vs. a more progressiv... more Notes on Contributors 'faces': a conservative, jingoistic, 'warfare' visage vs. a more progressive, community-enhancing 'welfare' side. Along these lines, far-right movements would appear to be a feature of the more regressive half of Janus.
The gender of the nation and ‘the [cru]x of the matter’. Linguistic controversies in the Brazilian political context
Cahiers du Genre, 2020
This article analyses linguistic guerrilla wars being waged over the issue of gender in contempor... more This article analyses linguistic guerrilla wars being waged over the issue of gender in contemporary Brazil. It focuses on two phenomena: on the one hand, Dilma Rousseff’s use of the title presidenta, a strategy that feminizes a word and a political office that have historically been masculine; and on the other hand, the use of the letter x as a neutral gender ending, a strategy that breaks with the cisheteropatriarchal, binary grammatical system of the Portuguese language and that has become visible in the public space over recent years. In the case of Brazil, these phenomena allow us to see how the ‘x da questaõ’ or ‘the [cru]x of the matter’, is no more than the construction of moral panic over the political potency of the concept of gender.
The SAGE handbook of qualitative research design, 2022
Queer(ing) Methodologies To m m a s o M. M i l a n i a n d R o d r i g o B o r b a
The banality of evil
Journal of Language and Discrimination
The aim of this article is to unveil how cisnormativity is institutionalised in a Brazilian gende... more The aim of this article is to unveil how cisnormativity is institutionalised in a Brazilian gender clinic, creating an emotionally charged local regime of doctor/ patient interactions. Our interest is not only in illustrating how the clinic’s institutionalised normatitivies about transbodies are the result of the crystallisation of particular transnational medical discourses, but also in showing how such a normative framework creates specific conditions for trans people’s acts of resistance. In order to capture this dual perspective on norms and resistance to them, we draw upon three important but somewhat neglected perspectives in sociolinguistic and discourse analytical research, which may bring some fresh insights to the study of language and discrimination more broadly: Hannah Arendt’s (1994) reflections on the ‘banality of evil’; Michel de Certeau’s (1984) ideas about the no less banal ways in which social actors speak back to power via a plethora of ‘tactics of resistance’; an...
Language and Gender
The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology
Silence and Sexuality in School Settings
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness
A partir de um estudo etnografico realizado entre 2003 e 2004 em uma comunidade de travestis que ... more A partir de um estudo etnografico realizado entre 2003 e 2004 em uma comunidade de travestis que se prostituem em uma regiao urbana do Rio Grande do Sul, o presente artigo traz a baila uma discussao sobre a identidade travesti. Mais precisamente, analisa-se a construcao discursiva da transmasculinidade, ou seja, a “masculinidade” travesti. Essa “masculinidade” especifica e o efeito de posicionamentos interacionais adotados em narrativas orais contadas pelas informantes nas quais caracteristicas ideologicamente tidas como femininas e masculinas sao sobrepostas e, assim, as travestis posicionam-se nas fronteiras dos generos. Para essa discussao, duas narrativas sobre violencia e sobre sexualidade sao analisadas sob o prisma da teoria da performatividade para demonstrar o carater fragmentado, fluido e sempre em devir da travestilidade.
Gender and Language
This thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research, launched in anticipati... more This thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research, launched in anticipation of the thirtieth anniversary of the 1992 Berkeley Women and Language Conference, showcases essays by luminaries who presented papers at the conference as well as allied scholars who have taken the field in new directions. Revitalising a tradition set out by the First Berkeley Women and Language Conference in 1985, the four biennial Berkeley conferences held in the 1990s led to the establishment of the International Gender and Language Association and subsequently of the journal Gender and Language, contributing to the field’s institutionalisation and its current panglobal character. Retrospective essays addressing the themes of Politics, Practice, Intersectionality and Place will be published across four issues of the journal in 2021. In this third issue on the theme of intersectionality, Mel Y. Chen revisits the melancholy they experienced in their training as a linguist pursuing tra...
Le genre de la nation et le x de la question
Cahiers du Genre
Julie Abbou Fabienne H. Baider (eds.), Gender, language and the periphery: Grammatical and social gender from the margins. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016. Pp. vi, 411. Hb. €99
Language in Society
Bamberg, Michael; Anna De Fina; & Deborah Schiffrin (2007). Selves and identities in narrativ... more Bamberg, Michael; Anna De Fina; & Deborah Schiffrin (2007). Selves and identities in narrative and discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Baynham, Mike (2015). Identity brought about or brought along? Narrative as a privileged site for researching intercultural identities. In Karen Risager & Fred Dervin (eds.), Researching identity and interculturality, 67–88. London: Routledge. ———, & Anna De Fina (2005). Dislocations/relocations: Narratives of displacement. London: Routledge. De Fina, Anna, & Alexandra Georgakopoulou (2012). Analyzing narrative: Discourse and sociolinguistic perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kendi, Ibram X. (2016). Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America. New York: Nation Books.
The Especialist Pesquisa Em Linguas Para Fins Especificos Descricao Ensino E Aprendizagem Issn 2318 7115, Dec 19, 2012
Discourse markers are a collection of one-word or multiword terms that help language users organi... more Discourse markers are a collection of one-word or multiword terms that help language users organize their utterances on the grammar, semantic, pragmatic and interactional levels. Researchers have characterized some of their roles in written and spoken discourse (Halliday & Hasan, 1976, Schffrin, 1988, 2001). Following this trend, this paper advances a discussion of discourse markers in contemporary academic spoken English. Through quantitative and qualitative analyses of the use of the discourse marker 'you know' in the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) we describe its frequency in this corpus, its collocation on the sentence level and its interactional functions. Grammatically, a concordance analysis shows that you know (as other discourse markers) is linguistically fl exible as it seems to be placed in any grammatical slot of an utterance. Interactionally, a qualitative analysis indicates that its use in contemporary English goes beyond the uses described in the literature. We defend that besides serving as a hedging strategy (Lakoff, 1975), you know also serves as a powerful face-saving (Goffman, 1955) technique which constructs students' identities vis-à-vis their professors' and vice-versa.
Linguagem e g�nero: a constru��o discursiva de identidades sociais
Revista Estudos Feministas, 2007
Gender and Language, 2024
This foreword by the journal editors of Gender and Language announces the special issue “Cultivat... more This foreword by the journal editors of Gender and Language announces the special issue “Cultivating Trans Linguistics” (December 2024), guest edited by Lal Zimman, Cedar Brown, and deandre miles-hercules. Outlining the steep global rise of far-right ideologies targeting trans and nonbinary people since beginning their term in 2020, the editors set out the urgent need for the field to amplify trans-affirming, cis-critical theories and analytical perspectives. See the full issue here: https://utppublishing.com/toc/gl/current
Sexuality Policy Watch, 2022
Nana Soares é jornalista e pesquisadora com foco em gênero e sexualidade.
Sexuality Policy Watch, 2022
Termos ambíguos do debate político atual: pequeno dicionário que você jovem não sabia que existia... more Termos ambíguos do debate político atual: pequeno dicionário que você jovem não sabia que existia Autoras e Autores "IDEOLOGIA" E "MARXISMO CULTURAL" Sonia Corrêa é ativista e pesquisadora nos temas de gênero, sexualidade, saúde e direitos humanos desde a década de 1970. Com Richard Parker, coordena o Observatório de Sexualidade e Política/Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), um programa da Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (ABIA). Coordena o projeto de pesquisa transnacional "Políticas Antigênero na América Latina" e foi pesquisadora visitante do Departamento de Gênero da London School of Economics. "POLITICAMENTE CORRETO" Nana Soares é jornalista e pesquisadora com foco em gênero e sexualidade.
Conspiracy Theory Discourses, 2022
The formula "gender ideology" has recently gained political traction in several countries. This c... more The formula "gender ideology" has recently gained political traction in several countries. This chapter investigates its conspiracist discursive infrastructure by probing two corpora of far-right media from Brazil and the US. Analysis indicates that "gender ideology" is framed within semantic realms of manipulation, puppeteering, falseness, and danger. It also suggests that anti-gender rhetoric acts as an all-encompassing narrative whereby a cohort of inchoate but ideologically interlinked conspiracy theories are lumped together in a seemingly coherent whole. Comparing datasets from two countries empirically illustrates how anti-gender rhetoric crosses transnational borders and adapts to local specifics along the way.
Enregistering "gender ideology": the emergence and circulation of a transnational anti-gender language
Journal of Language and Sexuality, 2022
Mobilizations against gender equality and sexual diversity have gained political traction globall... more Mobilizations against gender equality and sexual diversity have gained political traction globally despite their hyperbolic modes of action and conspiracist rhetoric. These anti-gender campaigns rally around “gender ideology,” a trope used to anathemize feminist and LGBTIQ+ activism/scholarship. This paper argues that anti-genderism is a register – a conventionalized aggregate of expressive forms and enactable person-types – of which “gender ideology” is the most famous shibboleth. The paper shows how inchoate collections of words, modes of action, and images of people (i.e. signs) have been enregistered into the cohesive but heterogeneous whole of anti-genderism through semiotic processes of clasping, relaying, and grafting (Gal, 2018; 2019). The paper offers a sociolinguistic analysis of anti-genderism to understand the challenges it poses to the enfranchisement of women, queer, trans, and nonbinary people.
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2021
Global Discourse, 2021
In both popular culture and academe, renewed interest in conspiracy theories (CTs) has followed i... more In both popular culture and academe, renewed interest in conspiracy theories (CTs) has followed in the wake of the recent global rise of far-right extremism. Examples abound: allegations that Hilary Clinton ran a child-trafficking ring from a Washington pizza parlour gained momentum during the 2016 US elections; survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018 have been portrayed as crisis actors hired to advance gun-prohibition policies; QAnon supporters aver that Donald Trump has defended US democracy against the 'deep state', namely political and economic elites that supposedly control democratically elected governments from behind the scenes; more recently, voter fraud accusations were raised to counter Trump's defeat in the 2020 presidential election; and during the coronavirus pandemic, Trump has furthered theories that the virus was created in a laboratory in China to advance its plans of economic domination, while in Brazil Jair Bolsonaro has championed smear campaigns against health authorities and the media, undermining their recommendations for masks and physical distancing. This overlap between CTs and far-right extremism is not that surprising for at least two reasons. On the one hand, CTs flourish in moments of stark social change because they serve as explanatory devices to make sense of events that threaten existing worldviews (Douglas et al, 2019). On the other, studies seem to suggest that right-wingers (and authoritarian ones at that) are more prone to foster conspiracy thinking due to their need to manage uncertainty which, in turn, provides grounds for extremism (Richey, 2017). Defined as 'allegations that powerful people and organizations are plotting together in secret to achieve sinister ends through deception of the public' (Wood and Douglas, 2013:1), CTs offer right-wing authoritarian
Social Semiotics, 2021
Jair Bolsonaro, the unapologetically homophobic and ultraconservative Brazilian president, manage... more Jair Bolsonaro, the unapologetically homophobic and ultraconservative Brazilian president, managed to emerge from the margins of the political system and gained electoral momentum during the impeachment hearing against Dilma Rousseff in 2016. The hearing, which ultimately demoted the first female president of the country, epitomizes the current affective polarization of Brazil in which sexual dissidence plays an important role. This paper discusses the politics of discourse, affect and sexuality which has drawn Bolsonaro and his far-right ideologies into greater political relief. To do so, I will focus on the scene in which Jean Wyllys, a human rights activist and the only openly gay congressmember at the time, spat on Bolsonaro. Wyllys' misdemeanor caused a commotion in the country and was recontextualized in several venues such as memes, social media, op-eds, YouTube parodies etc. This paper investigates the intense circulation of Wyllys' actions and how it responds to and takes issue with the larger affective scenario of the country. I analyze the socio-semiotic life of Wyllys' spit by tracking its textual trajectory with a view to discussing the performativity of disgust and the forging of political (in)sensibilities with regards to gender and sexuality in contemporary Brazil.
Anglistica AION, 2020
Notes on Contributors 'faces': a conservative, jingoistic, 'warfare' visage vs. a more progressiv... more Notes on Contributors 'faces': a conservative, jingoistic, 'warfare' visage vs. a more progressive, community-enhancing 'welfare' side. Along these lines, far-right movements would appear to be a feature of the more regressive half of Janus.
The gender of the nation and ‘the [cru]x of the matter’. Linguistic controversies in the Brazilian political context
Cahiers du Genre, 2020
This article analyses linguistic guerrilla wars being waged over the issue of gender in contempor... more This article analyses linguistic guerrilla wars being waged over the issue of gender in contemporary Brazil. It focuses on two phenomena: on the one hand, Dilma Rousseff’s use of the title presidenta, a strategy that feminizes a word and a political office that have historically been masculine; and on the other hand, the use of the letter x as a neutral gender ending, a strategy that breaks with the cisheteropatriarchal, binary grammatical system of the Portuguese language and that has become visible in the public space over recent years. In the case of Brazil, these phenomena allow us to see how the ‘x da questaõ’ or ‘the [cru]x of the matter’, is no more than the construction of moral panic over the political potency of the concept of gender.
The SAGE handbook of qualitative research design, 2022
Queer(ing) Methodologies To m m a s o M. M i l a n i a n d R o d r i g o B o r b a
The banality of evil
Journal of Language and Discrimination
The aim of this article is to unveil how cisnormativity is institutionalised in a Brazilian gende... more The aim of this article is to unveil how cisnormativity is institutionalised in a Brazilian gender clinic, creating an emotionally charged local regime of doctor/ patient interactions. Our interest is not only in illustrating how the clinic’s institutionalised normatitivies about transbodies are the result of the crystallisation of particular transnational medical discourses, but also in showing how such a normative framework creates specific conditions for trans people’s acts of resistance. In order to capture this dual perspective on norms and resistance to them, we draw upon three important but somewhat neglected perspectives in sociolinguistic and discourse analytical research, which may bring some fresh insights to the study of language and discrimination more broadly: Hannah Arendt’s (1994) reflections on the ‘banality of evil’; Michel de Certeau’s (1984) ideas about the no less banal ways in which social actors speak back to power via a plethora of ‘tactics of resistance’; an...
Language and Gender
The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology
Silence and Sexuality in School Settings
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness
A partir de um estudo etnografico realizado entre 2003 e 2004 em uma comunidade de travestis que ... more A partir de um estudo etnografico realizado entre 2003 e 2004 em uma comunidade de travestis que se prostituem em uma regiao urbana do Rio Grande do Sul, o presente artigo traz a baila uma discussao sobre a identidade travesti. Mais precisamente, analisa-se a construcao discursiva da transmasculinidade, ou seja, a “masculinidade” travesti. Essa “masculinidade” especifica e o efeito de posicionamentos interacionais adotados em narrativas orais contadas pelas informantes nas quais caracteristicas ideologicamente tidas como femininas e masculinas sao sobrepostas e, assim, as travestis posicionam-se nas fronteiras dos generos. Para essa discussao, duas narrativas sobre violencia e sobre sexualidade sao analisadas sob o prisma da teoria da performatividade para demonstrar o carater fragmentado, fluido e sempre em devir da travestilidade.
Gender and Language
This thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research, launched in anticipati... more This thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research, launched in anticipation of the thirtieth anniversary of the 1992 Berkeley Women and Language Conference, showcases essays by luminaries who presented papers at the conference as well as allied scholars who have taken the field in new directions. Revitalising a tradition set out by the First Berkeley Women and Language Conference in 1985, the four biennial Berkeley conferences held in the 1990s led to the establishment of the International Gender and Language Association and subsequently of the journal Gender and Language, contributing to the field’s institutionalisation and its current panglobal character. Retrospective essays addressing the themes of Politics, Practice, Intersectionality and Place will be published across four issues of the journal in 2021. In this third issue on the theme of intersectionality, Mel Y. Chen revisits the melancholy they experienced in their training as a linguist pursuing tra...
Le genre de la nation et le x de la question
Cahiers du Genre
Julie Abbou Fabienne H. Baider (eds.), Gender, language and the periphery: Grammatical and social gender from the margins. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016. Pp. vi, 411. Hb. €99
Language in Society
Bamberg, Michael; Anna De Fina; & Deborah Schiffrin (2007). Selves and identities in narrativ... more Bamberg, Michael; Anna De Fina; & Deborah Schiffrin (2007). Selves and identities in narrative and discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Baynham, Mike (2015). Identity brought about or brought along? Narrative as a privileged site for researching intercultural identities. In Karen Risager & Fred Dervin (eds.), Researching identity and interculturality, 67–88. London: Routledge. ———, & Anna De Fina (2005). Dislocations/relocations: Narratives of displacement. London: Routledge. De Fina, Anna, & Alexandra Georgakopoulou (2012). Analyzing narrative: Discourse and sociolinguistic perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kendi, Ibram X. (2016). Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America. New York: Nation Books.
The Especialist Pesquisa Em Linguas Para Fins Especificos Descricao Ensino E Aprendizagem Issn 2318 7115, Dec 19, 2012
Discourse markers are a collection of one-word or multiword terms that help language users organi... more Discourse markers are a collection of one-word or multiword terms that help language users organize their utterances on the grammar, semantic, pragmatic and interactional levels. Researchers have characterized some of their roles in written and spoken discourse (Halliday & Hasan, 1976, Schffrin, 1988, 2001). Following this trend, this paper advances a discussion of discourse markers in contemporary academic spoken English. Through quantitative and qualitative analyses of the use of the discourse marker 'you know' in the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) we describe its frequency in this corpus, its collocation on the sentence level and its interactional functions. Grammatically, a concordance analysis shows that you know (as other discourse markers) is linguistically fl exible as it seems to be placed in any grammatical slot of an utterance. Interactionally, a qualitative analysis indicates that its use in contemporary English goes beyond the uses described in the literature. We defend that besides serving as a hedging strategy (Lakoff, 1975), you know also serves as a powerful face-saving (Goffman, 1955) technique which constructs students' identities vis-à-vis their professors' and vice-versa.
Linguagem e g�nero: a constru��o discursiva de identidades sociais
Revista Estudos Feministas, 2007
Paper Presented at the 9th International Language and Gender Association - IGALA 9. City Universi... more Paper Presented at the 9th International Language and Gender Association - IGALA 9. City University of Hong Kong, May 2016.
Trajetórias de identificação e a semiose entre encontros comunicativos: identidades e interação no Processo Transexualizador brasileiro
Whose ethics? whose politics? A discourse-based approach to the depathologization of transsexuality
(Des)aprendendo a 'ser': Trajetórias de identificação e construção de identidades no processo transexualizador do SUS
Language ideologies and cynical identity performances at a Brazilian gender identity clinic
Material didático, identidades e a produção de cidadania crítica
Mentiras, protocolos médicos e (des)identificação: performances narrativas e identidades no Processo Transexualizador do SUS
Receita para se tornar um 'transexual verdadeiro': trajetórias de socialização e (des)construção de identidades no Processo Transexualizador do SUS
Identidades dissidentes e discurso: por uma perspectiva queer nos estudos linguísticos
Membership categorization analysis, performativity, identity trajetories and identity (de)legitimation in a Brazilian gender identity clinic
Transgendered lies: narratives and text trajectories in the pathologization of transsexuality
A construção da transexualidade em entrevistas psiquiátricas:performances narrativas, protocolos médicos e os paradoxos da transautonomia
Linguística Aplicada e Atenção à Saúde de Transgêneros: Interação, ideologias linguísticas e identidades no Processo Transexualizador do SUS
Práticas discursivas, identidades e contextos institucionais: performances, performatividades e suas contribuiçöes para a linguística aplicada
Sexo, mentiras e transautonomia:Performances narrativas e estilizaçöes de protocolos médicos em um programa de atençäo à saúde de transexuais
Sumário do livro Discursos transviados: por uma linguística queer a ser lançado pela Editora Cort... more Sumário do livro Discursos transviados: por uma linguística queer a ser lançado pela Editora Cortez em 2020.
Mais do que descrever como pessoas LGBT falam ou escrevem, a Linguística Queer investiga o papel ... more Mais do que descrever como pessoas LGBT falam ou escrevem, a Linguística Queer investiga o papel da linguagem em conferir ou retirar legitimidade a múltiplas formas de vivenciar a sexualidade. Com previsão de lanamento em setembro de 2020 pela editora Cortez, esta coletânea congrega pesquisadores que têm questionado certos pressupostos dos estudos da linguagem através de práticas teórico-metodológicas inovadoras cujo objetivo é entender dinâmicas de reiteração e contestação de normas excludentes e hierarquizantes. Os capítulos mostram que o estudo de práticas linguísticas a partir de uma perspectiva queer traz ganhos (epistemológicos, metodológicos e políticos) para diversas áreas tais como a sociolinguística, a linguística aplicada, a linguística textual, a análise da conversa, a análise crítica do discurso, a morfologia entre outras. Tais ganhos podem nos ajudar a repensar o lugar do linguístico no social (e do social no linguístico) e produzir pesquisas politicamente responsivas às demandas de um mundo que ainda precisa aprender a lidar com a diferença.
Editora Fiocruz, 2016
Provas de leitura e revisão (miolo) do livro publicado em 2016 pela Fiocruz. Relate resultados de... more Provas de leitura e revisão (miolo) do livro publicado em 2016 pela Fiocruz. Relate resultados de pesquisa etnográfica sobre o processo transexualizador do SUS. A atenção recai em como se dá o atendimento clínico a pessoas transexuais via uma perspectiva interdisciplinar de estudos da interação.
Queering Paradigms IVa: Insurgências queer ao Sul do equador, junto com o volume Queering Paradig... more Queering Paradigms IVa: Insurgências queer ao Sul do equador, junto com o volume Queering Paradigms IV: South-North Dialogues on Queer Epistemologies, Embodiments and Activisms (Lewis et al. 2014), divulga de forma multilíngue pesquisas apresentadas no 4° Congresso Internacional Queering Paradigms (QP4), sediado no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Ambos os volumes compartilham o objetivo de analisar o status quo e os desafios para o futuro dos Estudos Queer a partir de uma perspectiva inter/multidisciplinar, concentrando-se sobre as relações entre os eixos Sul-Norte. O presente livro oferece capítulos escritos em português e espanhol, línguas subalternas na academia global, visando a privilegiar vozes e conhecimentos do Sul. Os trabalhos reunidos neste volume insurgem contra a colonização epistemológica dos corpos que habitam o Sul global e apontam para os problemas que surgem quando a(s) Teoria(s) Queer do Norte são aplicadas sem adaptação a outros contextos. Além de violências epistemológicas, a falta de atenção ao que acontece ao sul do equador pode levar a uma paralização do debate queer. O convite que esses capítulos fazem é um desafio a olhar para onde não se costuma olhar e ouvir as vozes que não se costuma ouvir, de forma a devolver ao queer seu potencial de contestação. Q u e e r i n g P a r a d i g m s i va ISBN 978-1-78707-192-6
Esta obra contribui de forma inestimável para uma compreensão mais alargada e, ao mesmo tempo, ma... more Esta obra contribui de forma inestimável para uma compreensão mais alargada e, ao mesmo tempo, mais aprofundada dos inúmeros fenômenos linguísticos, discursivos e semióticos envolvidos no Processo Transexualizador. Habilmente navegando em diferentes áreas -linguística (aplicada), sociologia, filosofia, antropologia -, Rodrigo Borba adentra e descreve, de forma inusitada, as instituições e outros espaços da vida cotidiana que não apenas constituem o cenário em que pessoas trans (des)aprendem a ser um transexual verdadeiro, mas que são, eles mesmos, constitutivos desse processo. O autor se vale de uma etnografia de ordem mais micro, a investigação da fala-em-interação, gravada e transcrita minuciosamente, e se propõe a olhar o que normalmente é entendido como pequenos detalhes da vida cotidiana, por exemplo, a forma como uma pergunta é feita, onde se encaixa um riso ou mesmo um suspiro na interação, os alinhamentos e desalinhamentos interacionais, entre tantos outros.
The formula "gender ideology" has recently gained political traction in several countries. This c... more The formula "gender ideology" has recently gained political traction in several countries. This chapter investigates its conspiracist discursive infrastructure by probing two corpora of far-right media from Brazil and the US. Analysis indicates that "gender ideology" is framed within semantic realms of manipulation, puppeteering, falseness, and danger. It also suggests that anti-gender rhetoric acts as an all-encompassing narrative whereby a cohort of inchoate but ideologically interlinked conspiracy theories are lumped together in a seemingly coherent whole. Comparing datasets from two countries empirically illustrates how anti-gender rhetoric crosses transnational borders and adapts to local specifics along the way.
BORBA, Rodrigo. Posfácio -O corpo distópico. In.: BONFANTE, Gleiton, A erótica dos signos. Rio de... more BORBA, Rodrigo. Posfácio -O corpo distópico. In.: BONFANTE, Gleiton, A erótica dos signos. Rio de Janeiro:Multifoco, no prelo. POSFÁCIO O corpo distópico Para que eu seja utopia, basta que eu seja um corpo. Michel Foucault A excitabilidade é uma propriedade elementar do vivo. O vivo é, de início, excitado: chama a responder a um exterior. Jean-Luc Nancy
Cahiers du Genre, 2020
Cet article vise à analyser le contexte de guérilla linguistique autour du genre dans le Brésil c... more Cet article vise à analyser le contexte de guérilla linguistique autour du genre dans le Brésil contemporain. Deux phénomènes nous intéressent : d’une part, l’utilisation du titre de presidenta par Dilma Rousseff, une stratégie de féminisation d’un terme et d’une position politique historiquement masculine ; puis l’utilisation de la lettre x comme terminaison de genre neutre, une stratégie de rupture du système linguistique hétérocispatriarcal et binaire du portugais qui est devenu visible dans l’espace public ces dernières années. Ces phénomènes nous permettent d’entrevoir que « le x de la question », dans le cas du Brésil, n’est que l’expression d’une panique morale vis-à-vis de la puissance politique du concept de genre.
Gender and Language, 2021
This second issue of the 2021 four-part Theme Series "Thirty-year Retrospective on Language, Gend... more This second issue of the 2021 four-part Theme Series "Thirty-year Retrospective on Language, Gender and Sexuality Research" features seven essays focused on the theme of practice by prominent scholars in the field. Deborah Tannen, Penelope Eckert, Marjorie Harness Goodwin, and Elinor Ochs & Tamar Kremer-Sadlik show how the field’s attention to the micro-details of situated, highly contextualised interaction offers a privileged vantage point for seeing how gender, power and other dimensions of social life emerge as mundane daily actions unfold. Shigeko Okamoto and Marcyliena H. Morgan respectively review how research on the language practices of Japanese women and African American women have been formative to the field while also describing the critical necessity of more attention to these areas moving forward. The theme series also pays tribute to significant scholars present at the 1992 Berkeley conference who are no longer with us; in this issue, Heidi E. Hamilton pays homage to the groundbreaking work of Deborah Schiffrin.
Gender and Language, 2021
The thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research, launched in anticipatio... more The thirty-year retrospective on language, gender and sexuality research, launched in anticipation of the thirtieth anniversary of the 1992 Berkeley Women and Language Conference, showcases essays by luminaries who presented papers at the conference as well as allied scholars who have taken the field in new directions. Revitalising a tradition set out by the First Berkeley Women and Language Conference in 1985, the four biennial Berkeley conferences held in the 1990s led to the establishment of the International Gender and Language Association and subsequently of the journal Gender and Language, contributing to the field’s institutionalisation and its current pan-global character. Retrospective essays addressing the themes of Politics, Practice, Intersectionality and Place will be published across four issues of the journal in 2021. In this inaugural issue on politics, Robin Lakoff, Susan Gal and Alice Freed analyse the current political scenario from their feminist linguistic lenses, while Sally McConnell-Ginet and Norma Mendoza-Denton share more personal views of the politics involved in doing research on language, gender and sexuality. The theme series also pays tribute to significant scholars present at the 1992 Berkeley conference who are no longer with us; in this issue, Amy Kyratzis pays homage to the groundbreaking work of Susan Ervin-Tripp.
Gender and Language, 2021
This third issue of the 2021 four-part Theme Series "Thirty-year Retrospective on Language, Gende... more This third issue of the 2021 four-part Theme Series "Thirty-year Retrospective on Language, Gender and Sexuality Research" features seven essays focused on the theme of intersectionality by prominent scholars in the field. Mel Y. Chen revisits the melancholy they experienced in their training as a linguist pursuing transdisciplinarity in the 1990s to highlight the broader role played by affective politics in scholarship, while Michèle Foster narrates key incidents in her life that shaped her work giving voice to Black women’s linguistic knowledge and practices. Mary Bucholtz and deandre miles-hercules, Lal Zimman and Susan Ehrlich offer incisive critiques of the field’s limits, drawing on their own positionalities to move the study of language, gender and sexuality beyond its whiteness and cis-centredness. Tommaso M. Milani thinks through the affective loading of the term ‘queer’ to set out the importance of anger and discomfort in building broader, intersectional alliances in the struggle for social justice. The theme series also pays tribute to significant scholars present at the 1992 Berkeley conference who are no longer with us; in this issue, María Dolores Gonzales offers a moving personal account of the life, work and activism of Chicana sociolinguist D. Letticia Galindo.
Gender and Language, 2021
This fourth and final issue of the 2021 four-part Theme Series "Thirty-year Retrospective on Lang... more This fourth and final issue of the 2021 four-part Theme Series "Thirty-year Retrospective on Language, Gender and Sexuality Research" shows how studies of language, gender and sexuality may be enlivened by seriously engaging with the notion of place – understood as one’s geographical location, locus of enunciation and/or position within the field. Bonnie S. McElhinny and María Amelia Viteri scrutinise lingering effects of colonialism and advocate for hope as a central affective dimension of decolonial practice. Drawing upon Black feminisms, Busi Makoni discusses the embodiment of refusal to racialised forms of patriarchy and Sonja L. Lanehart underlines the importance of bringing African American Women’s Language more centrally into the field’s remit. The next three essays move their foci to specific regions: Pia Pichler reflects on the entanglement of place, race and intersectionality in the UK; Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith warns against the dangers of reifying essentialised categories in Japanese language and gender research; Fatima Sadiqi criticises the underrepresentation of North Africa in the field by reviewing the emergence and resilience of feminist linguistics in the region. The two final essays highlight the importance of sociolinguistic activism and the urgent need of moving beyond the field’s Global North emphasis. Amiena Peck discusses the power of digital activism and the way it has reignited her passion for engaged scholarship. Ana Cristina Ostermann advocates for micro-interactional analysis as a method for illuminating Southern epistemologies of gender and sexuality. The theme series also pays tribute to significant scholars present at the 1992 Berkeley Women and Language Conference who are no longer with us; in this issue, Rusty Barrett and Robin Queen offer a lively account of the life and work of linguist and novelist Anna Livia. Read the entire issue at https://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL