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2020 - Volume 3 - Number 1

Do not Tell me How to Talk to Men! A Critical Discourse Analysis on Matthew Hussey’s Advice on “How to Charm him with your Texts”

Valeria Márquez Arellano * valo.mrqz@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0002-5353-7472
University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, MEXICO

Open Journal for Studies in Linguistics, 2020, 3 (1), 37-46 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsl.0301.04037m
Received: 27 May 2020 ▪ Accepted: 19 July 2020 ▪ Published Online: 9 September 2020

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
Gender in discourse and feminist ideologies have been more examined in different fields. Regarding the area of Applied Linguistics, there has been more attention to how men and women are represented linguistically, more specifically in feminist studies. The following article examines the chapter “How to charm him with your texts” of a book that provides women with advice on “how to get the man”. I provide a feminist critical discourse analysis (Lazar, 2007) with the support of previous studies on critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 2010). This article sheds light on some women categorization made by the author of the book and from a feminist ideology perspective.

KEY WORDS: critical discourse analysis, feminist critical discourse analysis, gender in discourse, feminist ideologies.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Valeria Márquez Arellano (MA student), University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lascuráin de Retana No. 5, Colonia Centro, ZIP code 36000, MEXICO. E-mail: valo.mrqz@gmail.com.

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