The humorous stylization of "new" women and men and conservative others
Titelübersetzung:Die humoristische Stilisierung von "neuen" Frauen und Männer und den konservativen Anderen
Autor/in:
Kotthoff, Helga
Quelle: Style and social identities : alternative approaches to linguistic heterogeneity. Berlin (Language, power and social process), 2007, S 445-475
Inhalt: In this article I will discuss how a circle of middle-aged academics recreates its moral order of new gender standards by a consonant staging of the "others" and the "self" – "them" vs. "us". The progressive self as well as the conservative other with whom the self is confronted are exaggeratedly stylized in a similarly disjunctive way over the course of various stories. Hyper-stylization sharpens a juxtaposition of social types which is humorously overdrawn. The comical performance becomes a factor of amusement for the group.