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This book offers an innovative way of doing critical discourse analysis that focuses on the performatively produced concepts and social structures that support oppressive attitudes in a community. It draws upon ethnographic data from a women´s field hockey club to examine players´ homophobic attitudes towards lesbians on the team.

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The Local Politics of Sexuality Theorizing Social Structure The Performative Production of Conceptual Systems ´Who´s snogged a girl, who´s slept with a girl´: Sex Concepts and Individual Concepts ´Oh yeah, she´s a good hockey player´: Local, Emergent Social Structure ´And the size of his...´ ´Shush!´: Hockey, Achievement and the Silencing of Desire ´After university they´ll go back to normal´: The Emancipatory Agenda Appendix Bibliography Index

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JODIE CLARK is Senior Lecturer in English Language at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Her research is focused on the development of ethnographic, communities-of-practice oriented approaches to critical discourse analysis. Jodie is a member of the Linguistic Politeness Research Group and the Language and Interaction Research Group at Sheffield Hallam University.

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