Interactional inhospitableness : a re-analysis of the mansplaining incident in Rebecca Solnit’s (2008) essay “Men Explain Things to Me”
The neologism “mansplaining” refers to a specific type of social behaviour in which “men [are] unnecessarily explaining things to women” (Bridges, 2021, p. 3). With the focus on “unnecessarily,” the verb “to mansplain” calls attention to cases of socio-pragmatic inappropriateness and more specifical...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2022
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/21280/1/TE%2010.pdf |