"Homophobia": aA dialogical-semiotic approach.

"Homophobia": aA dialogical-semiotic approach. Research Abstract Details 

Research Abstract Table of Contents

Jump to the:

"Homophobia": aA dialogical-semiotic approach. Abstract Text:

Miguel M ,Carla Machado,Miguel M Gonçalves,Carla Machado,

The target article from Madureira--The psychological basis of homophobia: Construction of a cultural barrier--is a very rich theoretical proposal, drawing on from different fields, from cultural psychology to the dialogical theories of the self. Despite its richness, in this commentary we will question some of its implicit and explicit assumptions. It seems to us that the author treats "homophobia" as a hegemonic cultural discourse, ignoring that a mixture of opposing discourses are nowadays available at a cultural level towards lesbians and gays, with important consequences at interpersonal and intrapersonal level. In addition, the very concept of "homophobia" (with its implicit assumptions from the field of psychopathology: "phobia") suggests a very static and intrapersonal way of understanding the diversity of the social mechanisms that underlie sexual prejudice. The way the author describes and tries to clarify the semiotic processes implied in the construction of the interpersonal and psychological barrier involved in "homophobia", in our opinion, also needs to be further developed. The use of the opposition between HEIMWEH and FERNWEH in the explanation of the barrier it is not, from our view, a description of a (semiotic) process but more a description of an outcome. In order to overcome these problems, we suggest some possible ways to approach this phenomenon from a semiotic and dialogical perspective.

"Homophobia": aA dialogical-semiotic approach. Publishing Authors By Initials

MM ,C Machado,MM Gonçalves,C Machado,

For similar abstracts research abstracts see: abstracts research

PUBMED ID PMID:

MEDLINE DATE:

"Homophobia": aA dialogical-semiotic approach. Journal Published:

PUBLICATION TYPE: Journal Article

Journal: Integrative psychological & behavioral science

VOLUME: 41

Page Numbers: 262-71; discussion 326-34

Journal Abbreviation:

ISSN: 1932-4502

DAY: 30

MONTH: Dec

YEAR: 2007

"Homophobia": aA dialogical-semiotic approach. Information

Number of References:

LANGUAGE: eng

NlmUniqueID: 101319534

"Homophobia": aA dialogical-semiotic approach. Keywords Mesh Terms:

KEYWORDS:

MESH TERMS:

Chemical & Substance for Abstract: "Homophobia": aA dialogical-semiotic approach. Information

Substance Name:

Registry Number:

Grant and Affiliation Information for "Homophobia": aA dialogical-semiotic approach.

AFFILIATION: Department of Psychology, University do Minho, 4710 Braga, Portugal. mgoncalves@iep.uminho.pt

Country: United States

AGENCY:

GRANT:

ACRONYM:

MEDLINETA: Integr Psychol Behav Sci

REFSOURCE:

DATABASENAME:

ACCESSION NUMBER:

Number Hits: 0

"Homophobia": aA dialogical-semiotic approach Related Publications

• After Helicobacter pylori, Genetic Susceptibility to Gastric Carcinoma Revisited.
• Age related obesity-induced shortening of GLUT4 mRNA poly(A) tail length in rat gastrocnemius skeletal muscle.
• Biochemical and Genetic Polymorphisms for Carboxylesterase and Acetylesterase in Grape Clones of Vitis vinifera L. (Vitaceae) Cultivars.
• CCR5 genotypes and progression to HIV disease in perinatally infected children.
• Cuticle Ultrastructure Changes in the Crab Scylla serrata Over the Molt Cycle.
• Effect of hyperthermia on experimental acute pancreatitis.
• Evolution of body mass index in two historical series of adolescents.
• Extradural arachnoid cysts in children.
• First report on the occurrence of Trypanosoma rangeli Tejera, 1920 in the state of Ceará, Brazil, in naturally infected triatomine Rhodnius nasutus Stål, 1859 (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae).
• Hepatocyte transplantation: State of the art.
• Host-specificity and coevolution among pollinating and nonpollinating New World fig wasps.
• Identification of psoralen loaded PLGA microspheres in rat skin by light microscopy.
• Infections after liver transplantation in adults: data from a university hospital in southern Brazil (1996-2000).
• Noradrenergic inhibitory modulation in the caudal commissural NTS of the pressor response to chemoreflex activation in awake rats.
• Oxidative stress is enhanced by hypothermia imposed on cerulein-induced pancreatitis in rats.
• Plasmodium vivax infection among Duffy antigen-negative individuals from the Brazilian Amazon region: an exception?
• Portal vein aneurysm.
• Potential of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 in bone regeneration.
• Predictable esthetic treatment of fractured anterior teeth: a clinical report.
• Pulvinus functional traits in relation to leaf movements: A light and transmission electron microscopy study of the vascular system.
• Radiation therapy and chemotherapy-induced oral mucositis.
• Reconstruction of a large complex skull defect in a child: a case report and literature review.
• Respiratory syncytial virus rhinosinusitis in intensive care unit patients.
• Shifts in the psychophysical function in rats.
• The effect of pyrazinamide and rifampicin on isoniazid metabolism in rats.
• The effect of rifampicin and pyrazinamide on isoniazid pharmacokinetics in rats.
• Vibrio vulnificus infection in São Paulo, Brazil: case report and literature review.
• [Corporal fat distribution and lipidic and glicemic profiles of HIV-infected patients]
• [Prevalence of HIV-syphilis coinfection in a university hospital in the city of Rio de Janeiro in 2005]
• [The Brazilian Ministry of Health policy model in the 1990s]