Previous research on language, sexuality, and affect has focused primarily on the presence rather than the absence of desire. This analysis investigates the linguistic manifestations of non-desire on two subreddits: r/AskReddit and r/Asexual. Contrasting asexual redditors’ responses to threads such as When and how did you realize you were asexual? with straight, allosexual redditors’ responses to a thread titled Straight redditors, when did you realize you were straight?, I find that allosexual and asexual redditors’ responses differ in agency and emotionality. While straight allosexual redditors attribute their lack of homosexual desire to factors other than themselves, asexual redditors attribute their lack of allosexual desire to their own identity. Additionally, asexual redditors frame their realizations of their asexuality as processual and emotional, using feel and felt more often than straight allosexual redditors’ responses. These results expose the importance of emotionality – including lack of desire – as a resource for asexual identity construction.
{"title":"From crushes to squishes","authors":"J. Fine","doi":"10.1075/jls.22004.fin","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.22004.fin","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Previous research on language, sexuality, and affect has focused primarily on the presence rather than the absence\u0000 of desire. This analysis investigates the linguistic manifestations of non-desire on two subreddits: r/AskReddit and r/Asexual.\u0000 Contrasting asexual redditors’ responses to threads such as When and how did you realize you were asexual? with\u0000 straight, allosexual redditors’ responses to a thread titled Straight redditors, when did you realize you were\u0000 straight?, I find that allosexual and asexual redditors’ responses differ in agency and emotionality. While straight\u0000 allosexual redditors attribute their lack of homosexual desire to factors other than themselves, asexual redditors attribute their\u0000 lack of allosexual desire to their own identity. Additionally, asexual redditors frame their realizations of their asexuality as\u0000 processual and emotional, using feel and felt more often than straight allosexual redditors’\u0000 responses. These results expose the importance of emotionality – including lack of desire – as a resource for asexual identity\u0000 construction.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48744754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Pakuła (2021): Linguistic Perspectives on Sexuality in Education: Representations, Constructions, and Negotiations","authors":"Liang Cao","doi":"10.1075/jls.00028.cao","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00028.cao","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41801413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper analyses menarche episodes from TV series using the discourse-historical approach to compare how menarche has been depicted on TV during different decades and takes a closer look into inter-generational experience of menarche. The analysis focuses on membership categorization analysis of the scenes and dialogues involving menarche. After analyzing several decades of menstrual discourse, it is possible to conclude that TV discourse has changed from depicting menarche as a shameful taboo to a powerful visual storyline statement. However, the menarche scenarios did not change dramatically and continue to rely heavily on a mother-daughter bonding plot and highlight childbearing as the main and sometimes the only positive aspect of menstruation. The continuous use of menstruational euphemisms is still predominating the TV discourse.
{"title":"“You’re a woman now”","authors":"Anna Metreveli","doi":"10.1075/jls.00027.met","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00027.met","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper analyses menarche episodes from TV series using the discourse-historical approach to compare how\u0000 menarche has been depicted on TV during different decades and takes a closer look into inter-generational experience of menarche.\u0000 The analysis focuses on membership categorization analysis of the scenes and dialogues involving menarche. After analyzing several\u0000 decades of menstrual discourse, it is possible to conclude that TV discourse has changed from depicting menarche as a shameful\u0000 taboo to a powerful visual storyline statement. However, the menarche scenarios did not change dramatically and continue to rely\u0000 heavily on a mother-daughter bonding plot and highlight childbearing as the main and sometimes the only positive aspect of\u0000 menstruation. The continuous use of menstruational euphemisms is still predominating the TV discourse.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44647556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Over the last two decades, there has been an increasing coverage of transgender people in Latin American and Spanish media. However, there are very few research studies that thoroughly examine the increasing use of terms such as transgender “transgénero” and trans in Spanish-speaking press. This contribution studies the linguistic representation of transgender people in Spanish-speaking quality press produced in Colombia and Spain. Within the framework of Queer Linguistics and Corpus-based Discourse Analysis, this article explores the linguistic choices employed by the Spanish-speaking press to name transgender people and examines the main differences in the linguistic choices made by newspapers in the two countries. Unlike in English, the findings suggest that trans and transexual are the most commonly used labels in Spanish. Although the semantic categories of representation are seen to differ between the two countries, the linguistic choices observed seem to be closely linked to sociopolitical and ideological preferences.
{"title":"A corpus-based discourse analysis of transgender labels in the Spanish-speaking press","authors":"Javier E. García León, Mónica Rodríguez-Castro","doi":"10.1075/jls.21023.gar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.21023.gar","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Over the last two decades, there has been an increasing coverage of transgender people in Latin American and\u0000 Spanish media. However, there are very few research studies that thoroughly examine the increasing use of terms such as\u0000 transgender “transgénero” and trans in Spanish-speaking press. This contribution studies the\u0000 linguistic representation of transgender people in Spanish-speaking quality press produced in Colombia and Spain. Within the\u0000 framework of Queer Linguistics and Corpus-based Discourse Analysis, this article explores the linguistic choices employed by the\u0000 Spanish-speaking press to name transgender people and examines the main differences in the linguistic choices made by newspapers\u0000 in the two countries. Unlike in English, the findings suggest that trans and transexual are the\u0000 most commonly used labels in Spanish. Although the semantic categories of representation are seen to differ between the two\u0000 countries, the linguistic choices observed seem to be closely linked to sociopolitical and ideological preferences.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48845648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper draws on linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork in Chengdu, China to consider the utility of broad labels such as Chinese, Western and gay in accounting for the performance of sexual and cultural identity. I problematise work which takes such notions to be stable and self-evidently referential, arguing instead that identity is much more fluid, emergent and discourse-dependent than conventional understandings tend to imply. I focus on visibility of queer sexual identity partly because it is an especially accessible example of the role of language in identity performance, being most often achieved through verbal interaction. More broadly, however, this focus emerged through my ethnographically informed, discursive-sociocultural approach to my life and research in mainland China during the period 2008–2019. Specifically, I use spoken data from the interviews which formed part of this process to argue that social practice within related ethnic and/or social groups is best understood in terms of the situated use of sociolinguistic tools and the entailed negotiation of pertinent ideological systems. From this perspective, the ostensibly insurmountable ideological pressures that “Chinese gays” are typically seen to face, and which tend to be attributed to a taken-for-granted and monolithic “Chinese culture”, are better interpreted with reference to the complex relationship between language, culture and identity. Thus, I do not assume the right to make broad claims about what Chinese gays do, or to state that they are categorically different from their presumed homogenous Western counterparts. Instead, I discuss what certain individuals say in certain conversations, noting how their performance of identity is often highly individualised, being shaped according to the interactants present and the interactional aims relevant to specific moments of communication.
{"title":"Do “Chinese gays” come out?","authors":"Phil Freestone","doi":"10.1075/jls.21009.fre","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.21009.fre","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper draws on linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork in Chengdu, China to consider the utility of broad labels\u0000 such as Chinese, Western and gay in accounting for the performance of sexual and cultural\u0000 identity. I problematise work which takes such notions to be stable and self-evidently referential, arguing instead that identity\u0000 is much more fluid, emergent and discourse-dependent than conventional understandings tend to imply. I focus on visibility of\u0000 queer sexual identity partly because it is an especially accessible example of the role of language in identity performance, being\u0000 most often achieved through verbal interaction. More broadly, however, this focus emerged through my ethnographically informed,\u0000 discursive-sociocultural approach to my life and research in mainland China during the period 2008–2019. Specifically, I use\u0000 spoken data from the interviews which formed part of this process to argue that social practice within related ethnic and/or\u0000 social groups is best understood in terms of the situated use of sociolinguistic tools and the entailed negotiation of pertinent\u0000 ideological systems. From this perspective, the ostensibly insurmountable ideological pressures that “Chinese gays” are typically\u0000 seen to face, and which tend to be attributed to a taken-for-granted and monolithic “Chinese culture”, are better interpreted with\u0000 reference to the complex relationship between language, culture and identity. Thus, I do not assume the right to make broad claims\u0000 about what Chinese gays do, or to state that they are categorically different from their presumed homogenous\u0000 Western counterparts. Instead, I discuss what certain individuals say in certain conversations, noting how\u0000 their performance of identity is often highly individualised, being shaped according to the interactants present and the\u0000 interactional aims relevant to specific moments of communication.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44010637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pornography is commonly criticized for allegedly representing and promoting sexual dominance of men over women. Studies have shown varying results, with no scientific consensus reached on the matter. To contribute to the discussion with empirical discourse analysis evidence, I examine the linguistic choices reflected in a corpus of erotic novels to test whether there are gendered patterns of agency in the representation of sexual interactions. The construal of prominence is correlated to the notion of agency to find which participant specifies the trajector status and agent role in every relational expression. Results show that male participants take prominence over females in an overwhelming majority of the cases, while expressions with plural agency are marginal. The approach of this paper, combining cognitive grammar with linguistic participation roles, provides comprehensive and realistic results by attempting to operationalize agency as the linguistic expression of a particular cognitive pathway.
{"title":"Give it to her","authors":"Lucía Sanz-Valdivieso","doi":"10.1075/jls.21020.san","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.21020.san","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Pornography is commonly criticized for allegedly representing and promoting sexual dominance of men over women.\u0000 Studies have shown varying results, with no scientific consensus reached on the matter. To contribute to the discussion with\u0000 empirical discourse analysis evidence, I examine the linguistic choices reflected in a corpus of erotic novels to test whether\u0000 there are gendered patterns of agency in the representation of sexual interactions. The construal of prominence is correlated to\u0000 the notion of agency to find which participant specifies the trajector status and agent role in every relational expression.\u0000 Results show that male participants take prominence over females in an overwhelming majority of the cases, while expressions with\u0000 plural agency are marginal. The approach of this paper, combining cognitive grammar with linguistic participation roles, provides\u0000 comprehensive and realistic results by attempting to operationalize agency as the linguistic expression of a particular cognitive\u0000 pathway.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47928088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Myketiak (2020): Online Sex Talk and the Social World: Mediated Desire","authors":"N. Irawan","doi":"10.1075/jls.00029.ira","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00029.ira","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41973656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Most trans people change their name in accordance to their gender in the process of transitioning. The decision for a new name can take place at any stage during an individual’s exploration of their identity, typically coming into use when the individual comes out to others and asks to be addressed with this new name. Whether or not this new name is accepted and adopted by others is not only a matter of time, but correlates to the acceptance of the “new” gender and thus of a person’s right to change their name. This article offers an analysis of trans name change announcements as performative speech acts and analyses the reactions to this name change, i.e. the acceptance or refusal of this new name, in relation to the speech act’s felicity conditions.
{"title":"How to do gender with names","authors":"Miriam Lind","doi":"10.1075/jls.21002.lin","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.21002.lin","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Most trans people change their name in accordance to their gender in the process of transitioning. The decision\u0000 for a new name can take place at any stage during an individual’s exploration of their identity, typically coming into use when\u0000 the individual comes out to others and asks to be addressed with this new name. Whether or not this new name is accepted and\u0000 adopted by others is not only a matter of time, but correlates to the acceptance of the “new” gender and thus of a person’s right\u0000 to change their name.\u0000 This article offers an analysis of trans name change announcements as performative speech acts and analyses the\u0000 reactions to this name change, i.e. the acceptance or refusal of this new name, in relation to the speech act’s felicity\u0000 conditions.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44270703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Comer (2022): Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality","authors":"Brandon William Epstein","doi":"10.1075/jls.00026.eps","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00026.eps","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41740416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study focuses on switches into and out of African American English among contestants of the television series RuPaul’s Drag Race. Following Barrett (1995), I note that Black contestants who are comfortable in White Middle-Class American English tend to use it as their primary dialect, switching to AAE in order to develop rapport. I suggest that non-Black performers switch into AAE either in order to mitigate the effects of comments which might otherwise be interpreted as rude, or to reinforce strength in moments of emotional self-disclosure, and that this is possibly reflective of an interpretation on the part of the speaker that forwardness and strength constitute a normal element – ‘sass’ – of Black women’s speech. Finally, I explore the possible social impact of this phenomenon from the perspective of two common themes in the popular discourse on race: one centered on cultural appropriation, the other on the perception of Black Women’s Language.
{"title":"“You know she didn’t have no country”","authors":"Nicholas Kontovas","doi":"10.1075/jls.20001.kon","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.20001.kon","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study focuses on switches into and out of African American English among contestants of the television series\u0000 RuPaul’s Drag Race. Following Barrett (1995), I note that Black contestants who are\u0000 comfortable in White Middle-Class American English tend to use it as their primary dialect, switching to AAE in order to develop\u0000 rapport. I suggest that non-Black performers switch into AAE either in order to mitigate the effects of comments which might\u0000 otherwise be interpreted as rude, or to reinforce strength in moments of emotional self-disclosure, and that this is possibly\u0000 reflective of an interpretation on the part of the speaker that forwardness and strength constitute a normal element – ‘sass’ – of\u0000 Black women’s speech. Finally, I explore the possible social impact of this phenomenon from the perspective of two common themes\u0000 in the popular discourse on race: one centered on cultural appropriation, the other on the perception of Black Women’s\u0000 Language.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46704250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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