Language Choice and Sexual Communication among Xhosa Speakers in Cape Town, South Africa: Implications for HIV Prevention Message Development

Autor/inn/en	Cain, Demetria; Schensul, Stephen; Mlobeli, Regina
Titel	Language Choice and Sexual Communication among Xhosa Speakers in Cape Town, South Africa: Implications for HIV Prevention Message Development
Quelle	In: Health Education Research, 26 (2011) 3, S.476-488 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-1153
DOI	10.1093/her/cyq067
Schlagwörter	Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS); Municipalities; Disease Control; Mothers; Prevention; Foreign Countries; Sexuality; Males; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; African Languages; Health Behavior; Guidelines; Communication (Thought Transfer); Ethnography; Intervention; Sex Role; Power Structure; Interviews; Health Education; English (Second Language); Language Usage; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Magistrat; Mother; Mutter; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Ausland; Sexualität; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Sexual transmitted disease; Geschlechtskrankheit; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Richtlinien; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Ethnografie; Geschlechterrolle; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Sprachgebrauch; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Communicating about sex is a vital component of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and influences how HIV educators convey messages to communities and how couples negotiate safer sex practices. However, sexual communication inevitably confronts culturally based behavioral guidelines and linguistic taboos unique to diverse social contexts. The HIV interventionist needs to identify the appropriate language for sexual communication given the participants and the message. Ethnographic research can help facilitate the exploration of how sex terminology is chosen. A theoretical framework, developed to guide HIV interventionists, suggests that an individual's language choice for sexual communication is influenced by gender roles and power differentials. In-depth interviews, free listing and triadic comparisons were conducted with Xhosa men and women in Cape Town, South Africa, to determine the terms for male genitalia, female genitalia and sexual intercourse that are most appropriate for sexual communication. Results showed that sexual terms express cultural norms and role expectations where men should be powerful and resilient and women should be passive and virginal. For HIV prevention education, non-mother tongue (English and Zulu) terms were recommended as most appropriate because they are descriptive, but allow the speaker to communicate outside the restrictive limits of their mother tongue by reducing emotive cultural connotations. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10