Gender, Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Identities

Queen, Robin M.

doi:10.1002/9781118335598.ch17

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“…• Sexo: En una situación de variación estable, una variante vernácula como la velarización de (l) sería más esperable en el habla masculina que en la femenina, dada la contrastada mayor inclinación de las mujeres a reproducir las normas de prestigio que los hombres en estas circunstancias (Labov 2001;Queen 2013). No obstante, cabe pensar también en la posibilidad de que se esté produciendo un cambio favorable a la variante, en cuyo caso las mujeres podrían abanderarlo (Labov 2001).…”

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Español a la catalana: variación vernácula e identidad en la Cataluña soberanista

Arroyo

2021

ORALIA

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Los resultados del presente estudio muestran una notable correlación entre las realizaciones vernáculas de un segmento fónico del español y la filiación ideológica de los políticos catalanes. A partir de una muestra integrada por 16 destacados miembros de la política catalana actual, que adquirieron un notable protagonismo en el proceso soberanista vivido en Cataluña en los últimos años, un análisis variacionista demuestra que las formas velarizadas del fonema (l) en posición final de palabra (‘fatal’ [fatáł]) –al modo en que este fonema es pronunciado en catalán– están íntimamente asociadas al ideario nacionalista –y más concretamente independentista de los políticos–, y en menor medida a su origen social. Por el contrario, aparte de un par de restricciones estructurales vinculadas al contexto fónico, ningún otro factor lingüístico o extralingüístico muestra una incidencia relevante, incluida la ideología, entendida en el eje tradicional derecha-izquierda. En el marco de la denominada tercera ola de los estudios variacionistas (Eckert 2012), estos datos avalan la interpretación de esta variable fónica como un potencial recurso para la expresión de determinadas filiaciones políticas e ideológicas en circunstancias excepcionales como las vividas recientemente en Cataluña.

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Español a la catalana: variación vernácula e identidad en la Cataluña soberanista

Arroyo

2021

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“…They are between adulthood and childhood, which creates the perfect environment to "adapt, resignify and reconstrue language variation" (Kirkham and Moore, 2013, p. 399) so it is not surprising that the main generation participating in the Latinx movement is the adolescent group and younger adults (e.g., Guidotti-Hernandez, 2017;Slemp et al, 2019;Slemp 2020). Additionally, women are more likely to use innovative forms in language when prestige is not a consideration (Queen, 2013). Ethnicity may also contribute to the pronunciation of genderinclusive language (Fought, 2013), and though it is not the focus of this project, one cannot ignore the intersectional relationship that exists between gender and ethnicity (Eckert & McConnell-Ginet, 2003).…”

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Attitudes towards varied inclusive language use in Spanish on Twitter

Slemp

2021

WALLY

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Research into gender-inclusive language in Spanish has demonstrated that inclusive language generally appears in four forms: doublets, -@, -x, and -e. There is little research on language attitudes towards the use of gender-inclusive language in Spanish, although studies exist for other languages. The present study compiled a corpus of published tweets that contained the markers -@, -x, and -e. Based on this data, hypothetical tweets were constructed that fell into four different categories, corresponding to the author of the tweet: business, personal, academic, and political. These hypothetical tweets were built into an attitudes survey that was distributed on Twitter. Findings indicate that language attitudes for each type of inclusive marker and category of tweet are generally positive. Statistical analysis indicates a significant relationship between gender identity and attitudes towards the use of inclusive language in the political category.

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“…Gender: In a stable situation of variation, the vernacular variants such as the velarisation of (-l) or the devoicing of (-d) are expected to a greater extent in male speech than in that of females; and the opposite are expected in the standard forms of that same (d). However, I also consider the possibility that changes favouring some of those variants are taking place, in which case women would lead them (Labov 2001;Queen 2013).…”

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Indexing political identity in the Catalonianprocés: A sociophonetic approach

Arroyo

2020

Lang. Soc.

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This article demonstrates the potential for phonological variables to be a resource for the expression of ideology and identity in historical circumstances such as those experienced recently in the Catalonian procés. Based on a corpus consisting of communicative events from sixteen leading Catalan politicians, four Spanish linguistic variants are analyzed. Apart from a handful of structural predictors, the mixed-effects logistic regression analysis shows the robustness of (only) two extralinguistic factor groups: the social origin and the identification of the politicians as Catalan nationalist (mainly pro-independence) or not nationalist. As regards the latter, the most significant of all predictors, the analysis shows how nationalist politicians always favor the sounds mainly associated with vernacular pronunciation in eastern Catalan speech communities ([-ɫ] and [-t]), but at the same time also favor other sounds associated with more canonical and pan-Hispanic prestige variants ([-ð] and [-ð-]). These apparently contradictory results can be explained if the social meaning of all variants is considered around the same indexical field, that of authenticity. In this sense, nationalists seem to ‘appropriate’ the Spanish language by tingeing its expressive habits with uses closer to their language. (Phonological variation, nationalism, ideology, languages in contact, Spanish, Catalan)*

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Gender, Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Identities

Cited by 12 publications

References 43 publications

Español a la catalana: variación vernácula e identidad en la Cataluña soberanista

Español a la catalana: variación vernácula e identidad en la Cataluña soberanista

Attitudes towards varied inclusive language use in Spanish on Twitter

Indexing political identity in the Catalonianprocés: A sociophonetic approach

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