Hindi. “Unnatural” gender in Hindi

Hall, Kelli Stidham

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“…In the examples above, fronted /s/ is incorporated into a linguistic style that ideologically differentiates SoMa queens from Castro queens, not unlike the queer uses of gender morphology by Hijras in India to mark individuals as in‐ or out‐group (Hall ). Displays of wit and attitude like reading are examples of an in‐group practice that serves to both reference and solidify the indexical connection between feminine performances like fronted /s/ and the fierce queen persona.…”

Section: The N+1+1 Order Opposition: Recontextualization Of /S/mentioning

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FromSissytoSickening:The Indexical Landscape of /s/ in SoMa, San Francisco

Calder

2019

J Linguistic Anthropol

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From Sissy to Sickening: The Indexical Landscape of /s/ in SoMa, San Francisco This paper explores the relation between the linguistic and the visual in indexing social meaning and performing gender, focusing on fronted /s/ among a community of drag queens in SoMa, San Francisco. I argue that as orders of indexicality (Silverstein 2003) are established, linguistic features like fronted /s/ become linked with visual bodies. These bodylanguage links can impose top-down restrictions on the uptake of gender performances. Nonnormatively gendered individuals like the SoMa queens embody cross-modal figures of personhood (see Agha 2003Agha , 2004 like the fierce queen that forge higher indexical orders and widen the range of performative agency.

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Section: The N+1+1 Order Opposition: Recontextualization Of /S/mentioning

confidence: 99%

FromSissytoSickening:The Indexical Landscape of /s/ in SoMa, San Francisco

Calder

2019

J Linguistic Anthropol

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“…For example, in languages with grammatical gender, queer speakers often manipulate morphological markers of gender for various stylistic and interactional eff ects. For example, queer speakers of Hausa (Gaudio 2014), Hebrew (Bersthling 2014; Levin 2010b), Hindi (Hall 2002), and Portuguese (Borba andOstermann 2007, 2008) all manipulate morphological markers of gender in various ways. As with argots (like oxtchit), manipulations of grammatical gender may be used to marginalize out-group individuals (see Hall 2002).…”

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Speech play, gender play, and the verbal artistry of queer argots

Barrett

2018

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Th is paper presents a comparative study of argots (or secret varieties) used in communities marked by non-normative gender or sexuality. A comparison of nine argots based in diff erent languages suggests that the development of each of these argots involves large amounts of speech play. A variety of patterns of speech play are analyzed, including cross-language play, play languages, morphological restructuring and innovation, and lexical substitutions within the local language. Th e importance of speech play in these communities is illustrated with the genre of mock translations in which familiar texts (such as Shakespeare or the Bible) are reproduced using argot. Th e results suggest that speech play and verbal artistry are important and understudied elements of queer cultures.

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“…In richly researched Western societies with a long‐standing foundation of descriptive sociolinguistic work, such questions can be deeply explored. Similarly, for large non‐Western cultures with well‐known non‐dichotomous gender patterns, such as the hijras of India (Hall ), a variationist researcher would be able to include such nuanced gender patterns from the beginning. But in small, lesser‐studied communities where the foundational work has not been completed, it is often necessary to start with a more basic description.…”

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A call for more diverse sources of data: Variationist approaches in non‐English contexts

Stanford

2016

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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Over the past 50 years, variationist sociolinguists have taken the influential ideas and pioneering methods of Labov (1966) to many locations around the world. But the majority of variationist research still focuses on English and other European languages, rather than lesser-studied language communities. Like other subfields of linguistics, the variationist paradigm needs to continually explore new data from a range of languages. The present article examines how the principles and methods of Labov (1966) have been applied to non-English language communities, testing the impact and relevance of those half-century-old notions in new and sociolinguistically diverse settings, and calling for more research in new field sites. 五十年以来,变异派社会语言学者利用拉波夫(Labov 1966)的论理及研究模式在世界各地进行研究。然而,多数变异派学者仍然专注于英语和欧洲语言而忽略研究其他少数族群的语言。如语言学内的其他领域, 变异派社会语言学应该继续广泛收集和研究各种不同的语言数据。本文探讨如何运用拉波夫理论和方法来研究多种非英语语言,测试和验证这些半世纪之久的观念在新的和多样化情况的实用性,并呼吁变异派社会语言学者探索众多尚未被研究的少数族群的语言。[Chinese]

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Hindi. “Unnatural” gender in Hindi

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

FromSissytoSickening:The Indexical Landscape of /s/ in SoMa, San Francisco

FromSissytoSickening:The Indexical Landscape of /s/ in SoMa, San Francisco

Speech play, gender play, and the verbal artistry of queer argots

A call for more diverse sources of data: Variationist approaches in non‐English contexts

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