@article{ref1,
title="Punctuating accountability: how discursive aggression regulates transgender people",
journal="Gender and society",
year="2017",
author="shuster, stef m.",
volume="31",
number="4",
pages="481-502",
abstract="Using in-depth interviews with forty transgender people, I explore &quot;discursive aggression,&quot; a term for the communicative acts used in social interaction to hold people accountable to social- and cultural-based expectations, and subsequently to reinforce inequality in everyday life. I show how these interactional affronts restore social order, are based in dominant language systems, and reflect expectations for how interactions should unfold. Gendered expectations--such as the assumption that gender is identifiable based on visual cues alone--come to life through language, are delivered through discursive aggression, and become routinized micro-inequalities that people negotiate in interaction. I present five vignettes to exemplify how discursive aggression typically unfolds in interaction. In so doing, this research demonstrates the value of discursive aggression as a concept to capture a pervasive, yet under-examined, feature of everyday life and a mechanism for how power is reified in interaction.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0891-2432",
doi="10.1177/0891243217717710",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891243217717710"
}