Alpha masculinity : hegemony in language and discourse

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Stumbling into Alpha
	1.1	 The Origin Story
	1.2	 Speaking Alpha, Being Alpha
	1.3	 Plural Masculinities: Connections and Situations
	1.4	 How to Approach This Book
	1.5	 Author Positionality and Stance
	References
2: Masculinities, Language, and the Alpha Male
	2.1	 Foundations and Interrogations
	2.2	 Positivism and Hybridization: Masculinities in the Twenty-First Century
		2.2.1	 Masculinities, Misogynies, and Toxicities
		2.2.2	 Alpha by Any Other Name
		2.2.3	 Masculinities and Hegemonies
		2.2.4	 (Re)Interrogating Alpha
	2.3	 Masculinities and Language, Masculinities in Language
		2.3.1	 Feminist and Queer Linguistics: Othering the Other
		2.3.2	 Language and Men: Complexifying the Self
		2.3.3	 The State of the (Language) Art: Hegemonies and Linguistic Performance
	References
3: The Evidentiary Bases of Alpha Male Discourse
	3.1	 Corpus Selection
	3.2	 Narrowing Focus and Field
	3.3	 Self-Publishing, Social Media, and the Blurring of Discursive Domains
	3.4	 To Be Alpha: Corpus Overview
	3.5	 From Beta Male to Alpha Gay: Corpus Overview
	3.6	 What Women Want: Corpus Overview
	3.7	 Data: Methods and Procedure
	3.8	 Discussion
	References
4: Enlanguaging Alpha: Making Reality by Making Language
	4.1	 Reality, the Mind, and Language: Controversies Past and Present
	4.2	 Discourse, Materiality, and the Place of Language
	4.3	 Language as Matter, Matter in Language, and Language That Matters
	References
5: Representing Alpha: The Forms of Male Hegemony
	5.1	 Participant Delimitation
	5.2	 Participant Reference: Naming and Labeling
	5.3	 Attributives: Being and Becoming
	5.4	 Modification: Participant Qualities
	5.5	 Pronominalization: Deictic Labeling and Participant Framing
	5.6	 Discussion
	References
6: Constructing Alpha: Structures of Hegemony
	6.1	 Participant Exchange: A Grammar of Hegemony
		6.1.1	 Grammatical Roles
		6.1.2	 Genitives and Possessives: Hegemonies of Governance
	6.2	 Hegemony as Message: Power, Capacity, and Ability in Context
		6.2.1	 Active and Passive Voices: The Deflection of Hegemony
		6.2.2	 Modality: The Granularity of Hegemonic Messaging
	6.3	 Representing Hegemony: Processes, Roles, and Participant Reality
		6.3.1	 Existential and Relational Processes: Hegemony in Fact and Feature
		6.3.2	 Materiality and Hegemonic Agency
		6.3.3	 Mental Processes: Hegemonic Epistemes and Representations of the Mind
	6.4	 Discussion
	References
7: Discourses of Alpha: Strategies and the Hegemonic Order
	7.1	 Defining Strategies, Interpreting Teleos
	7.2	 Scientific Orders of Discourse: Constructing the Gendered Order
	7.3	 Dismantling Androdivergence: De(con)structing Beta
	7.4	 Ontological and Neoliberal Masculinities: Alpha in a Marketplace of Power
	7.5	 Rhetorical Questions and Clichéd Truisms: Dismantling Doubt
	7.6	 Appeal to Authority
	7.7	 Discussion
	References
8: Men, Militarism, and Disruption
	8.1	 Faggots and Women, Men and Queers
	8.2	 Militarizing the Men: Ramrod in America
	8.3	 “Fucking with the Men”: A Case for Antimilitaristic Masculinity
	8.4	 Some Final Thoughts
	References
Index