University of Stirling The Sunday Times - Scottish University of the Year - 2009/2010

Department of English Studies

Staff Information

 

Masculinity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines

Discourse and Identity

Applying Conversation Analysis

Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis

Dr Bethan Benwell

Books

Benwell, B. (ed) (2003) Masculinity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines. Oxford: Blackwell (Sociological Review Monograph Series)

Benwell, B & Stokoe, E. (2006) Discourse and Identity. Edinburgh: EUP

Articles

Benwell, B. (2007) New Sexism?: Readers’ Responses to the use of Irony in Men’s Magazines. Journalism Studies. 8(4): 539-549.

Benwell, B. (2005) ‘Lucky this is Anonymous!’ Men’s Magazines and Ethnographies of Reading: A Textual Culture Approach. Discourse and Society, 16 (2): 147-172.


Benwell, B. (2004) ‘Ironic Discourse: Evasive Masculinity in British Men's Lifestyle Magazines’. Men and Masculinities 7(1): 3-21


Benwell, B. and Stokoe, E. (2002) ‘Constructing Discussion Tasks in University Tutorials: Shifting Dynamics and Identities’ Discourse Studies 4(4): 429-453


Benwell, B. (2001) ‘Have a go if you think you're hard enough!: Male Gossip and Language Play in the Letters Pages of Men's Lifestyle Magazines’. Journal of Popular Culture. 35 (1): 19-33


Benwell, B. (1999) ‘The Collaborative Construction of Knowledge: Issues, Rhetorical Relations and Pedagogic Discourse Strategies in Multidisciplinary Tutorial Discourse’. Pragmatics 9(4): 535-565.


Benwell, B. (1998) ‘Is There Anything "New" About these Lads?: The Construction of Masculinity in Men's Magazines’, in Sunderland and Johnson (eds) Proceedings of the Language and Gender One Day Conference, Occasional Papers: Lancaster University: Centre for Language and Social Life Series

 

Chapters

Benwell, B. and Stokoe, E. (2005) ‘University Students Resisting Academic Identity’. In Richards and Seedhouse (eds) Applying Conversation Analysis. Palgrave: Macmillan.


Benwell, B. (2003) ‘Ambiguous Masculinities: Heroism and Anti-heroism in the Men's Lifestyle Magazine’. In Benwell (ed) Masculinity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines. Oxford: Blackwell (Sociological Review Monograph Series)


Benwell, B. (2003) ‘Introduction’. In Benwell (ed) Masculinity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines. Oxford: Blackwell (Sociological Review Monograph Series)


Benwell, B. (2002). ‘Elusive Masculinities: Locating the Male in the Men’s Lifestyle Magazine’. In Antonia Sanchez-Macarro (ed) Windows on the World: Media Discourse in English, English Language Studies texts series, University of Valencia Press.


Benwell (2002) ‘Is There Anything "New" About these Lads?: The Construction of Masculinity in Men's Magazines’. In Sunderland and Litosseliti (eds) Discourse Analysis and Gender Identity. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins

 

Forthcoming

Allington, D. & Benwell, B. (forthcoming) ‘Reading the Reading Experience: 'Booktalk' and Discursive Psychology’. In D. Fuller, & A. Lang (Eds) Contemporary Cultures of Reading.


Benwell, B. & Stokoe, E. (forthcoming) ‘Discourse Analysis: Conversation, narratives and genealogies’. In M. Wetherell & C.T. Mohanty (Eds) Sage Handbook of Identities. London: Sage.