Essays about: "drag queens"

Found 3 essays containing the words drag queens.

  1. 1. Drag Slang in RuPaul’s Drag Race : Strategies and Success of the Japanese Translation

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Author : Ossi Artturi Väätäinen; [2024]
    Keywords : Drag queen; Slang translation; Audiovisual translation; English Japanese translation; Queer community;

    Abstract : This paper presents a study on the translation of slang used by drag queens. The study aims to examine how the slang used by drag queens in RuPaul’s Drag Race season 12 is translated into Japanese. The translation strategies used are revealed and the faithfulness of the translation is discussed. READ MORE

  3. 2. Fulfilling and defying the established gender norms: the experience of five Swedish drag artists

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Camila Fonseca; [2019]
    Keywords : drag queens; performativity; bodies; masculinities; mainstreaming; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Both in the media and academic circles there have been a proliferation of interest in drag queens. While the female impersonator has a long recorded history, our contemporary society’s quite public and sustained preoccupation about the subject seems to be unprecedented. READ MORE

  4. 3. "Drag Queens Talk Like Women, You Know" : A Study in the Use of the hedge "You Know" in feminine-gendered Speech

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Danny Bennett; [2017]
    Keywords : Drag Queens; Women s Language; Language and Gender; Hedges;

    Abstract : The aim of this study was to analyze and compare the use of the verbal hedge "you know" in the spontaneous speech of women and drag queens to compare for instances of certainty and uncertainty as described by Holmes (1986). For the data, episodes of the reality shows RuPaul’s Drag Race Untucked which airs on Logo TV and The Real Housewives of Orange County which airs on Bravo TV were manually transcribed by the conventions of written speech. READ MORE