Recently added articles from Gender Forum:
Introduction
Jan 01, 2008; ... Addressing the diverse field of gender and language, the current issue of gender forum brings together articles from a wide range of disciplines. Thus this issue presents contributions investigating the role of language in relation to gender in literature by East German women writers, the ...
Iconicity as a Doorway to a New Space: Lesser Known East German Women Writers in the Seventies and Eighties
Jan 01, 2008; ... 1 About a century ago, two theories of the sign were conceived on opposite sides of the Atlantic. The European semiology of Saussure emerging on one side was "verbocentric," as Saussure saw the arbitrary nature of la langue as the paradigm form of representation. On the other side, Peirce, a ...
Performativity, Intertextuality and Social Change: An Ethnographic Analysis of Taiwanese Gay Personal Ads1
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction 1 Prior to the rise of the Internet as the chief vehicle for personal ad placements, a group of linguistic codes identifiable as referring to Taiwanese gay (or sexually non-conforming) men were used to correspond in mainstream Taiwanese magazines. These "situated" linguistic ...
Bearing the Beyond: Women and the Limits of Language in Stanley Cavell
Jan 01, 2008; ... 1 The American philosopher Stanley Cavell is one of the very few thinkers in the Anglo-Saxon dispensation of philosophy who address the role of gender and desire in our possessing language. While Cavell's oeuvre is receiving more and more attention in Europe, the issues of gender discussed in ...
Are Remarks History?: Gertrude Stein as Conceptual Artist
Jan 01, 2008; ... Most of you know that in a funny kind of way you are nearer your grandparents than your parents [. . .]. I created a movement of which you are the grandchildren. -Gertrude Stein 1 Although critics typically characterize Gertrude Stein as a modernist, it is at least as useful to approach ...