Women Like Us: Mediating and Contesting Identity in Lesbian Advice Literature

Chirrey, Deborah A.

doi:10.1057/9780230625136_11

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“…Internet texts were chosen due to the centrality of the internet in many people's lives and social networks which makes these texts instantly, globally available to anyone with internet access and an ability to read English, in a way that similar paper-based advice pamphlets, such as those considered by Chirrey (2007), could never achieve. These particular texts were selected via a Google search in 2007, where they emerged as among the top sites of their sort being accessed by internet users at that time.…”

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Formulating dispositions in coming out advice

Chirrey

2011

Discourse Studies

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This article considers the advice found on six internet sites written for people who are considering coming out. The article uses Edwards’ (1994, 1995, 1997) script formulation theory to examine how the grammatical choices by the writers formulate the dispositions of the main actors in the texts: the advice seeker, LGB individuals, and the people to whom they come out. The writers’ formulations are shaped by a view of coming out as the act of a reasonable, emotionally healthy, moral and loving lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) individual. It is argued that one of the purposes of these texts is to normalize coming out as a routine event and as a rational course of action for an LGB individual. Furthermore, the use of script formulation is seen to be characteristic of written texts and a strategy by which advice writers can legitimize themselves as qualified to give advice.

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