Launching a new phase in language and sexuality studies

Leap, William L.; Motschenbacher, Heiko

doi:10.1075/jls.1.1.01lea

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“…Far more research now takes place that considers a range of gender identities, and work is emerging which focuses on non-binary sexualities, too; Lavender, like this journal, has had a defining role to play in creating an environment where this work can flourish. Research remains dominated by Western scholarship, an observation originally noted in the inaugural issue of this journal (Leap & Motschenbacher 2012), but the global outlook of JLS (along with the international reach of Lavender) will continue to be key to increasing diversity in the field. For this to continue, we will ideally see the conference being hosted outside of Europe and North America in the near future, as well as more JLS special…”

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confidence: 99%

Queer linguistics and identity

Jones

2021

JLS

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In this short essay, I offer some reflections on language and sexuality work over the past decade. My discussion is focused on the increasing influence of queer theory, in particular, and I comment on trends in research into language and queer identities. I take into account not only the work published in the Journal of Language and Sexuality and beyond, but also that presented over the past decade at the annual Lavender Languages and Linguistics conference.

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Queer linguistics and identity

Jones

2021

JLS

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“…Queer Linguistics provides analyses of language data that are informed by the insights of Queer Theory. It has today become the most prevalent paradigm within the larger field of language and sexuality studies, its influence being felt in all major work in the field (for a more detailed overview of the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of Queer Linguistics, see Leap and Motschenbacher, 2012;Motschenbacher, 2011Motschenbacher, , 2012b. Recent years have seen an increase in Queer Linguistic publication activity in the form of monographs (e.g.…”

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Queer Linguistic approaches to discourse

Motschenbacher

Stegu

2013

Discourse & Society

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This introductory essay to the Discourse & Society special issue on Queer Linguistic Approaches to Discourse discusses the theoretical underpinnings of the connection between discourse studies and Queer Theory within Queer Linguistics -a strand of research that has recently gained great momentum. It outlines basic issues in Queer Theory and their repercussions in Queer Linguistic debates and research. The Queer Linguistic objective to provide critical heteronormativity research is then related to Queer Discourse Studies in its various forms and approaches. An overview of the contributions to the special issue and suggestions for future research conclude the article.

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“…Critical analysis therefore asks not only how something is expressed linguistically, but also why a text producer made a particular lexicogrammatical choice, what other choices they could have made in the same context and how doing so would have affected the conveyed meaning. Linking this to queer linguistics, a critical analysis ultimately makes transparent the way in which speakers use language in order to either construct and reinforce or challenge and subvert heteronormativity, that is, how language use works towards or against ‘rais[ing] heterosexuality to the status of a largely unquestioned norm [and] privileg[ing] certain forms of heterosexuality over others’ (Leap and Motschenbacher, 2012: 9). Given the conflation in hegemonic discourse of sexuality and gender, where the former is seen as determined by, and a defining feature of, the latter, critical analysis ipso facto asks how language is used to shore up the foundations of gender binaries as a system to maintain gendered inequalities of power.…”

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Constructing (non-)normative identities in written lesbian discourse: A diachronic study

Koller

2013

Discourse & Society

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This article provides an analysis of two texts written from a lesbian subject position at different points in recent history, to show how the authors construct (non-)normative ingroup representations. The study is based on theoretical notions from discourse theory, queer theory and social cognition research, and uses a mostly data-driven analytical approach. The two texts, a manifesto and a journal article, are investigated to see how they use nomination and predication to construct in-and out-group representations, to what extent these identities are non-normative and why they are constructed in this particular way. Results show a stark demarcation of a positive, non-complex in-group from a negative, equally non-complex out-group in the earlier text, which contrasts with a more differentiated and less uniformly positive in-group representation in the later text. This is explained with the respective socio-political context, and the earlier text is interpreted as promoting a more explicitly normative in-group representation.

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Launching a new phase in language and sexuality studies

Cited by 32 publications

References 13 publications

Queer linguistics and identity

Queer linguistics and identity

Queer Linguistic approaches to discourse

Constructing (non-)normative identities in written lesbian discourse: A diachronic study

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