Online discourses of ‘homosexuality’ and religion

IF 1.6 Q2 COMMUNICATION Journal of Language and Sexuality Pub Date : 2022-02-11 DOI:10.1075/jls.20011.jan
Jarmo Jantunen, Samu Kytölä
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This article examines Finnish online forum discussions where religion and discourses of ‘homosexuality’ are connected in various ways. Previous research (e.g. Jantunen 2018a) shows that in Finnish online discussions where sexual minorities are the topic, religion stands out as a significant feature – particularly in discourses on ‘homosexuality’. Via corpus-assisted discourse analysis (CADS), the present study adds to previous knowledge on this subject by qualitatively analyzing the occurrences of certain keywords in the Finnish societal context – one in which immigration and the visibility of both Islam and sexual minorities are perceived to have increased. The analysis found four interrelated key discourses in these online discussions: (1) Islamization as an alleged threat to gay people (in the data: ‘homosexuals’); (2) the alleged indifference/ignorance of people to Islam’s stance against sexual minorities; (3) relativist discourse(s) claiming all fundamentalists to be similar; and (4) othering – including for instance, the verbal stylization of Muslims as being particularly hypersexual.
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网上关于“同性恋”和宗教的讨论
这篇文章考察了芬兰在线论坛的讨论,宗教和“同性恋”话语以各种方式联系在一起。先前的研究(例如Jantunen 2018a)表明,在以性少数群体为主题的芬兰在线讨论中,宗教是一个重要特征,尤其是在关于“同性恋”的讨论中。通过语料库辅助话语分析(CADS),本研究通过对芬兰社会背景下某些关键词的出现进行定性分析,增加了以往对这一主题的了解——在芬兰社会背景中,移民和伊斯兰教和性少数群体的知名度都有所提高。分析发现,在这些在线讨论中有四个相互关联的关键话语:(1)伊斯兰化是对同性恋者的所谓威胁(数据中:“同性恋者”);(2) 据称人们对伊斯兰教反对性少数群体的立场漠不关心/无知;(3) 相对主义话语声称所有原教旨主义者都是相似的;以及(4)其他——例如,包括将穆斯林语言风格化为特别性欲亢进。
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Journal of Language and Sexuality
Journal of Language and Sexuality Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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