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Yes means yes and no means no? A critical sociolinguistic analysis of cultural assumptions and transnationalism in Polish online sexual education discourses on sexual consent

Data publikacji: 11.12.2024

Zoon Politikon, 2024, 15/2024, s. 164 - 201

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543408XZOP.24.007.20810

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Olga O’Toole
Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0571-2325 Orcid
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Tytuły

Yes means yes and no means no? A critical sociolinguistic analysis of cultural assumptions and transnationalism in Polish online sexual education discourses on sexual consent

Abstrakt

The subject of sexual consent has received increasing media and academic attention in recent years and the question of its sociolinguistic significance has been investigated in the context of the English language in Canadian, American, and British settings (sources). There seems to be a lack of cross-cultural analyses; however, little research has investigated the complexities of consent as far as attitudes and discourses. This paper presents an analysis of sexual education discourse taken from Polish grassroots sexual education initiatives and looks at the phenomenon of changes in discourse on consent, as well as signs of linguistic imperialism in sexual consent education practices. The project takes a qualitative approach to integrating critical discourse analysis (CDA) and feminist post-structural discourse analysis (FPDA), in which five sources of sexual consent materials found online are analyzed for the linguistic remnants of cultural assumptions about sexuality. This is done to investigate the implied understandings of roles in giving and asking for sexual consent, which at the same time work towards a more progressive discourse on sexuality.

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Informacje: Zoon Politikon, 2024, 15/2024, s. 164 - 201

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

Autorzy

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0571-2325

Olga O’Toole
Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0571-2325 Orcid
Wszystkie publikacje autora →

Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie

Publikacja: 11.12.2024

Otrzymano: 30.11.2023

Zaakceptowano: 29.11.2024

Status artykułu: Otwarte __T_UNLOCK

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Olga O’Toole is a sociolinguist and sociologist. She completed her PhD in linguistics at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow in 2022 and her MA in sociology at the same university in 2023. Her research interests include language, gender and sexuality, understandings of sexual consent, and the discursive representations of rape culture in the media. She currently works at the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University.

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