Since their inception in the years following World War II, American puberty videos have discursively manufactured affective distress in several generations of on-screen children. The patterns of talk found in eight films from 1947 to 2016 demonstrate that affect may de-link itself from specific talk and diffuse into a broader discourse through the recirculation of parallel structures in new semiotic spaces. I use queer critical discourse analysis (Jones & Collins 2020) and language socialization theory (Ochs & Schieffelin 2011) to argue that puberty videos first manufacture distress in the on-screen child before swiftly introducing a trusted adult to mitigate and recast distress as a normal part of growing up. Further, puberty videos reify cis- / heteronormativity and reproductive futurity in adulthood as the necessary outcomes of development. This paper explores the connection between affect and temporality in talk by critically attending to the historical stability of American puberty video discourse.
{"title":"Affective distress and heteronormative futurity in American puberty video discourse","authors":"Sean Nonnenmacher","doi":"10.1075/jls.22005.non","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.22005.non","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Since their inception in the years following World War II, American puberty videos have discursively manufactured\u0000 affective distress in several generations of on-screen children. The patterns of talk found in eight films from 1947 to 2016\u0000 demonstrate that affect may de-link itself from specific talk and diffuse into a broader discourse through the recirculation of\u0000 parallel structures in new semiotic spaces. I use queer critical discourse analysis (Jones\u0000 & Collins 2020) and language socialization theory (Ochs & Schieffelin\u0000 2011) to argue that puberty videos first manufacture distress in the on-screen child before swiftly introducing a\u0000 trusted adult to mitigate and recast distress as a normal part of growing up. Further, puberty videos reify cis- /\u0000 heteronormativity and reproductive futurity in adulthood as the necessary outcomes of development. This paper explores the\u0000 connection between affect and temporality in talk by critically attending to the historical stability of American puberty video\u0000 discourse.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140485015","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}
The belief that there is a relationship between sexuality and speech has inspired a vast body of linguistic research on lesbian- and gay-sounding voices (Campbell-Kibler 2007, Gaudio 1994, Levon 2006, Moonwomon-Baird 1997, Munson, McDonald, DeBoe & White 2006a, Munson, Jefferson & McDonald 2006b, Pierrehumbert, Bent, Munson, Bradlow & Bailey 2004, Smyth, Jacobs & Rogers 2003, Zimman 2013). Bisexuality is conspicuously absent in this literature. This article analyzes bisexual English speakers’ productions of the voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ relative to lesbian, gay, and straight speakers using linear mixed-effects regression modeling. A qualitative analysis of post-test participant information surveys contextualizes the statistical findings. The quantitative and qualitative results suggest that bisexual women and men do not pattern consistently with each other or lesbian, gay, or straight speakers. The analysis highlights the extent to which ideologies of sexuality, gender, and normativity inform experimental sociophonetic research practice.
{"title":"Bisexuality in experimental sociophonetics","authors":"Chloe Willis","doi":"10.1075/jls.00030.wil","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00030.wil","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The belief that there is a relationship between sexuality and speech has inspired a vast body of linguistic\u0000 research on lesbian- and gay-sounding voices (Campbell-Kibler 2007, Gaudio 1994, Levon 2006, Moonwomon-Baird 1997, Munson, McDonald, DeBoe & White\u0000 2006a, Munson, Jefferson & McDonald 2006b, Pierrehumbert, Bent, Munson, Bradlow & Bailey 2004, Smyth, Jacobs\u0000 & Rogers 2003, Zimman 2013). Bisexuality is conspicuously absent in this\u0000 literature. This article analyzes bisexual English speakers’ productions of the voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ relative to\u0000 lesbian, gay, and straight speakers using linear mixed-effects regression modeling. A qualitative analysis of post-test\u0000 participant information surveys contextualizes the statistical findings. The quantitative and qualitative results suggest that\u0000 bisexual women and men do not pattern consistently with each other or lesbian, gay, or straight speakers. The analysis highlights\u0000 the extent to which ideologies of sexuality, gender, and normativity inform experimental sociophonetic research practice.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140483048","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}
Mark A. Levand, Lorena Olvera Moreno, Justin A. Sitron
Sexuality professionals (sexologists) often communicate from a broad perspective of sexuality based on unique training. Cross-cultural code-switching is useful for sexologists to communicate with those who have different sexological worldviews. We discuss the concept of cross-cultural code-switching and its usefulness for sexuality professionals. We consider the theories behind the usefulness of this tactic in one’s work as a sexologist and offer practical considerations for effective code-switching across cultures. We observe the power dynamics in code-switching and offer this theoretical work as a way to raise one’s awareness to these realities of communication in the roles sexuality professionals hold in the world.
{"title":"Cross-cultural code-switching for sexuality professionals","authors":"Mark A. Levand, Lorena Olvera Moreno, Justin A. Sitron","doi":"10.1075/jls.00031.lev","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00031.lev","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Sexuality professionals (sexologists) often communicate from a broad perspective of sexuality based on unique\u0000 training. Cross-cultural code-switching is useful for sexologists to communicate with those who have different sexological\u0000 worldviews. We discuss the concept of cross-cultural code-switching and its usefulness for sexuality professionals. We consider\u0000 the theories behind the usefulness of this tactic in one’s work as a sexologist and offer practical considerations for effective\u0000 code-switching across cultures. We observe the power dynamics in code-switching and offer this theoretical work as a way to raise\u0000 one’s awareness to these realities of communication in the roles sexuality professionals hold in the world.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140482787","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}
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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
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