This article considers how two gay male parents negotiate normative discourses of gender, sexuality and the family in an interview context. Employing a three-level framework for exploring narratives-in-interaction, the micro-linguistic analysis identifies and unravels two gay parents’ multiple layers of self- and other- positioning through their telling of ‘small stories’. The findings support insights from existing sociological and psychological research to some degree, showing how these parents’ liminal situation amidst multiple and intersecting normative discourses can lead to conflict as they work to position themselves as partners, parents, and gay men. However, the analysis also reveals new insights about the specific and nuanced forms such conflict can take, depending on individuals’ circumstances and experiences. The findings suggest that everyday encounters are important sites for the (re)constitution of such normative discourses, and that the small stories parents tell about these encounters can be important resources for making sense of their lives in relation to broader social norms and structures.
{"title":"Negotiating normativities of gender, sexuality and the family in gay parents’ small stories","authors":"Jai Mackenzie","doi":"10.1075/jls.20016.mac","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.20016.mac","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article considers how two gay male parents negotiate normative discourses of gender, sexuality and the family\u0000 in an interview context. Employing a three-level framework for exploring narratives-in-interaction, the micro-linguistic analysis\u0000 identifies and unravels two gay parents’ multiple layers of self- and other- positioning through their telling of ‘small stories’.\u0000 The findings support insights from existing sociological and psychological research to some degree, showing how these parents’\u0000 liminal situation amidst multiple and intersecting normative discourses can lead to conflict as they work to position themselves\u0000 as partners, parents, and gay men. However, the analysis also reveals new insights about the specific and nuanced forms such\u0000 conflict can take, depending on individuals’ circumstances and experiences. The findings suggest that everyday encounters are\u0000 important sites for the (re)constitution of such normative discourses, and that the small stories parents tell about these\u0000 encounters can be important resources for making sense of their lives in relation to broader social norms and structures.","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":"44755794","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}
Reading is a unique interactional practice in the drag queen community. It refers to leveling witty and often cutthroat mock insults at fellow drag queens, with an aim of throwing shade. In this paper, I examine the discourse of the ‘reading challenge’, a staple of RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR), an internationally popular drag queen reality TV show (2009–). In the first part, I review central concepts surrounding drag performance and the phenomenon of RPDR and summarize relevant sociolinguistic literature about drag queen speech and the practice of reading. In the second part, I describe the RPDR reading challenge as a unique discursive genre and analyse its performative structure, themes, and most prominent strategies that queens use to construct felicitous reads and throw shade. The analysis demonstrates that this genre relies on camp language and highly ritualized, repetitive, and recontextualized performance of reading, framed by requirements of mass-consumed reality TV.
{"title":"“Haute couture? More like haute glue!”","authors":"M. Podboj","doi":"10.1075/jls.21013.pod","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.21013.pod","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 Reading is a unique interactional practice in the drag queen community. It refers to leveling\u0000 witty and often cutthroat mock insults at fellow drag queens, with an aim of throwing shade. In this paper, I\u0000 examine the discourse of the ‘reading challenge’, a staple of \u0000 RuPaul’s Drag\u0000 Race\u0000 (RPDR), an internationally popular drag queen reality TV show (2009–). In the first\u0000 part, I review central concepts surrounding drag performance and the phenomenon of RPDR and summarize relevant\u0000 sociolinguistic literature about drag queen speech and the practice of reading. In the second part, I describe\u0000 the RPDR reading challenge as a unique discursive genre and analyse its performative structure, themes, and most\u0000 prominent strategies that queens use to construct felicitous reads and throw shade. The analysis demonstrates that this genre\u0000 relies on camp language and highly ritualized, repetitive, and recontextualized performance of reading, framed by requirements of\u0000 mass-consumed reality TV.","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":"49084929","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}
Following a critical discourse-analytic approach, this study explores the role of euphemistic language in a corpus of titles of pornographic films designed for heterosexual male consumption that were nominated and awarded in the different categories of the AVN (Adult Video News) Awards, also known as “Oscars of Porn”, from 2015 to 2020. The analysis demonstrates that provocative euphemism contributes to the discursive representation of gender and sexual stereotypes that fall under a dominant heteronormative discourse in which female characters are represented both as victims of male dominance and as perverted, sex-crazed animals. This study also reveals that in the context of male supremacy that straight pornography seems to exalt, the sexist and misogynistic connotations that euphemistic references carry are used with a strategic purpose intended to attract the interest of pornography consumers, stimulate their curiosity, and ultimately make them buy, rent or stream the film.
{"title":"Provocative euphemism in pornographic film titles","authors":"Eliecer Crespo-Fernández","doi":"10.1075/jls.21001.cre","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.21001.cre","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Following a critical discourse-analytic approach, this study explores the role of euphemistic language in a corpus\u0000 of titles of pornographic films designed for heterosexual male consumption that were nominated and awarded in the different\u0000 categories of the AVN (Adult Video News) Awards, also known as “Oscars of Porn”, from 2015 to 2020. The analysis demonstrates that\u0000 provocative euphemism contributes to the discursive representation of gender and sexual stereotypes that fall under a dominant\u0000 heteronormative discourse in which female characters are represented both as victims of male dominance and as perverted,\u0000 sex-crazed animals. This study also reveals that in the context of male supremacy that straight pornography seems to exalt, the\u0000 sexist and misogynistic connotations that euphemistic references carry are used with a strategic purpose intended to attract the\u0000 interest of pornography consumers, stimulate their curiosity, and ultimately make them buy, rent or stream the film.","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":"48309808","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 Borba (2020): Discursos Transviados: Por uma Linguística Queer","authors":"Daniel Amarelo","doi":"10.1075/jls.00025.ama","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00025.ama","url":null,"abstract":"","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":"43788461","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 explores how ten nonbinary North American YouTubers appeal to legitimizing discourses (van Leeuwen & Wodak 1999) as rationalizations for their choices regarding identity labels and pronouns. Given the local cultural salience of the implications of their language choices, the YouTubers rationalize their terminological choices through legitimizing discourses that prioritize historical facts, lexical definitions, and personal feelings. I examine how these discourses presuppose particular language ideologies, or implicit assumptions about what language users view as “appropriate” language practices. In the case of the nonbinary YouTubers, I illustrate that the vloggers’ legitimizing discourses appeal to and juxtapose a referentialist ideology (Hill 2008, Silverstein 1979), according to which words should describe the world truthfully, and an ideology of self-identification (Zimman 2019), which prioritizes individual agency. Crucially, deploying these legitimizing discourses is an important strategy that nonbinary YouTubers draw on as part of their advocacy and education projects.
{"title":"Language ideologies and legitimacy among nonbinary YouTubers","authors":"Archie Crowley","doi":"10.1075/jls.20021.cro","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.20021.cro","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper explores how ten nonbinary North American YouTubers appeal to legitimizing discourses\u0000 (van Leeuwen & Wodak 1999) as rationalizations for their choices regarding\u0000 identity labels and pronouns. Given the local cultural salience of the implications of their language choices, the YouTubers\u0000 rationalize their terminological choices through legitimizing discourses that prioritize historical facts, lexical\u0000 definitions, and personal feelings. I examine how these discourses presuppose particular\u0000 language ideologies, or implicit assumptions about what language users view as “appropriate” language practices. In the\u0000 case of the nonbinary YouTubers, I illustrate that the vloggers’ legitimizing discourses appeal to and juxtapose a referentialist\u0000 ideology (Hill 2008, Silverstein 1979),\u0000 according to which words should describe the world truthfully, and an ideology of self-identification (Zimman 2019), which prioritizes individual agency. Crucially, deploying these legitimizing discourses is\u0000 an important strategy that nonbinary YouTubers draw on as part of their advocacy and education projects.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43426378","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}
Pronouns are a crucial linguistic resource for transgender and nonbinary people, and educators are in a unique position to support trans and nonbinary students by implementing affirming pronoun practices for their classrooms. This paper outlines concrete strategies for creating a trans-affirming pedagogy in the context of higher education. The strategies discussed detail modelling pronoun introductions, collecting pronoun information, navigating pronoun misuse, and considerations related to curricula and classroom contexts. Pronoun practices are an essential step towards making the classroom an affirming place for transgender and nonbinary students to thrive.
{"title":"Pronoun practices in the higher education classroom","authors":"Sofia Melendez, Archie Crowley","doi":"10.1075/jls.20022.cro","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.20022.cro","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Pronouns are a crucial linguistic resource for transgender and nonbinary people, and educators are in a unique\u0000 position to support trans and nonbinary students by implementing affirming pronoun practices for their classrooms. This paper\u0000 outlines concrete strategies for creating a trans-affirming pedagogy in the context of higher education. The strategies discussed\u0000 detail modelling pronoun introductions, collecting pronoun information, navigating pronoun misuse, and considerations related to\u0000 curricula and classroom contexts. Pronoun practices are an essential step towards making the classroom an affirming place for\u0000 transgender and nonbinary students to thrive.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46413335","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}
My introductory Linguistics course was for many years shaped by the field’s distaste for social justice issues such as cisheterosexism, racism, colonialism and ableism. Like many other linguists, I concentrated my teaching on the core formal subfields. This essay considers how the colonial roots of Linguistics have shaped the field and my teaching, and reflects on my efforts to integrate social justice concerns into my teaching, using the changing grammar of non-binary pronouns as one entry point.
{"title":"Pronouns and social justice in the linguistics classroom","authors":"Catherine Anderson","doi":"10.1075/jls.20024.and","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.20024.and","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 My introductory Linguistics course was for many years shaped by the field’s distaste for social justice issues\u0000 such as cisheterosexism, racism, colonialism and ableism. Like many other linguists, I concentrated my teaching on the core formal\u0000 subfields. This essay considers how the colonial roots of Linguistics have shaped the field and my teaching, and reflects on my\u0000 efforts to integrate social justice concerns into my teaching, using the changing grammar of non-binary pronouns as one entry\u0000 point.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47307186","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 Leap (2020): Language Before Stonewall: Language, Sexuality, History","authors":"John L. Maginn","doi":"10.1075/jls.00024.mag","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00024.mag","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44232718","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 papers in this special issue address themes from They, Hirself, Em, and YOU 2019 (THEY 2019), a conference that brought together researchers working on topics relating to nonbinary gender in language, particularly in pronouns. The papers collected in this special issue provide an overview of the current state of research and practice on nonbinary pronouns as they are currently used in English, as well as connecting the current practices in English to nonbinary pronouns in other languages. There are two sections. In the first section are five traditional academic articles on non-binary language and pronouns; the second section features three short technical articles that raise practical and/or pedagogical issues related to non-binary pronouns from a scholarly perspective. Authors in this volume investigate these topics not only for the advancement of linguistic scholarship, but also to make that scholarship visible to other fields and for broader advocacy.
{"title":"Towards an engaged linguistics","authors":"Lex Konnelly, Bronwyn M. Bjorkman, Lee Airton","doi":"10.1075/jls.21024.kon","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.21024.kon","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The papers in this special issue address themes from They, Hirself, Em, and YOU 2019 (THEY 2019),\u0000 a conference that brought together researchers working on topics relating to nonbinary gender in language, particularly in\u0000 pronouns. The papers collected in this special issue provide an overview of the current state of research and practice on\u0000 nonbinary pronouns as they are currently used in English, as well as connecting the current practices in English to nonbinary\u0000 pronouns in other languages. There are two sections. In the first section are five traditional academic articles on non-binary\u0000 language and pronouns; the second section features three short technical articles that raise practical and/or pedagogical issues\u0000 related to non-binary pronouns from a scholarly perspective. Authors in this volume investigate these topics not only for the\u0000 advancement of linguistic scholarship, but also to make that scholarship visible to other fields and for broader advocacy.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43320300","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}
Introducing material that helps to develop intercultural competence in English class brings the opportunity to reflect upon topics such as identity and representation. One way to do it is by introducing gender-neutral pronouns to our practice. This topic becomes particularly relevant as students get the chance to develop their intercultural awareness. For some students, the concept of gender-neutral pronouns, and what they imply, might be difficult to grasp, because they may not be fully aware of what they are or how to use them. Learning about gender-neutral pronouns can lead students to question some previous assumptions and creates a safe space in the classroom to talk about such topics. In this paper, I explore why working with these pronouns can not only improve the students’ grammar skills, but also can help them boost their intercultural competence. Furthermore, it is relevant for EFL students, but even more for future translators.
{"title":"Including them and all the rest","authors":"Lihit Andrea Velázquez-Lora","doi":"10.1075/jls.20025.vel","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.20025.vel","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Introducing material that helps to develop intercultural competence in English class brings the opportunity to\u0000 reflect upon topics such as identity and representation. One way to do it is by introducing gender-neutral pronouns to our\u0000 practice. This topic becomes particularly relevant as students get the chance to develop their intercultural awareness. For some\u0000 students, the concept of gender-neutral pronouns, and what they imply, might be difficult to grasp, because they may not be fully\u0000 aware of what they are or how to use them. Learning about gender-neutral pronouns can lead students to question some previous\u0000 assumptions and creates a safe space in the classroom to talk about such topics. In this paper, I explore why working with these\u0000 pronouns can not only improve the students’ grammar skills, but also can help them boost their intercultural competence.\u0000 Furthermore, it is relevant for EFL students, but even more for future translators.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46377587","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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