This study explores the process of interpreting interviews and media collected during two visits to India. Looking at the communicative nature of Indian identity, the author takes into account his own identity as an American exposed to a lifetime of exotic representations of Indian culture. Recognizing the limits of time for study in the field, recorded media provide valuable evidence and open ...

This paper proposes to analyse the discursive construction of Portuguese national identity in the semi-public (media) discourse, namely how two apparently competing discourses on national identity (that of the elite and that of laypeople) represent and reframe the country’s national identity. I am interested in how these different types of participants coconstruct and negotiate (national) ident...

This study is concerned with men's talk about emotions and with how emotion discourses function in the construction and negotiation of masculine ways of doing emotions and of consonant masculine subject positions. A sample group of 16 men, who were recruited from two social contexts in England, participated in focus groups on 'men and emotions'. Group discussions were transcribed and analysed u...

The utility of cultural encounters acquires a meaning that contributes to the understanding significance differences. attempt know certain people with their specificities spares embarrassment misunderstanding contexts whose topicality stems from cultures and geographies others. For sake achieving ideological purposes, however, textual become double-edged sword works in complicity produce differ...

Abstract Polyamory is an umbrella term denoting the practice of having multiple romantic and intimate relationships with consent everyone involved. Within a mononormative culture, becoming polyamorous may be associated uncertainty feeling being suspended. Moreover, preferential attitude towards monogamy marginalises polyamory as indecent corrupt, creating feelings shame social isolation. Our re...

Discourse shapes the way we see the world. In game design and game studies, discourse also shapes the games we make, the games we play, and how we think about games in general. One key discursive construction in contemporary game culture is to portray some games as ‘real’ or ‘authentic,’ rendering others as fake or lesser. In this essay we analyze the discourse of real games by focusing on four...