Homosociality in Men's Talk: Balancing and Recreating Cultural Discourses of Masculinity
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This paper explores how a group of men in the United States creates homosocial (as opposed to homosexual) desire through language. In a society in which dominant Discourses of masculinity provide competing scripts of male solidarity and heterosexuality, the achievement of closeness among men is not straightforward, but must be negotiated through other “indirect” means. However, in favorable speech events, the men do express homosociality overtly, and at times use linguistic features which have been more closely identified with “women's styles” of interaction. The paper shows how men actively negotiate dominant cultural Discourses in their everyday interactions. In addition, it argues for a view of indirectness based on social function as much as denotation.*
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