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Ray, Brian – Written Communication, 2016
This article introduces the concept of stylization and illustrates its usefulness for studying online discourse by examining how writers have employed it in order to parody sexist products such as BIC Cristal for Her, using genderlect in order to introduce dissonance into and reframe patriarchal discourse. A corpus analysis of 671 reviews, written…
Descriptors: Social Action, Discourse Analysis, Writing (Composition), Gender Bias
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Secor, Marie; Walsh, Lynda – Written Communication, 2004
In 1996, New York University professor of physics Alan Sokal wrote a parody of an academic article he titled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity." This parody escaped detection by the editors and was published in the journal "Social Text." Sokal outed his own hoax in the academic magazine "Lingua…
Descriptors: Parody, Rhetoric, Scholarship, Postmodernism