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.
{"title":"Online discourses of ‘homosexuality’ and religion","authors":"Jarmo Jantunen, Samu Kytölä","doi":"10.1075/jls.20011.jan","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.20011.jan","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines Finnish online forum discussions where religion and discourses of ‘homosexuality’ are\u0000 connected in various ways. Previous research (e.g. Jantunen 2018a) shows that in\u0000 Finnish online discussions where sexual minorities are the topic, religion stands out as a significant feature – particularly in\u0000 discourses on ‘homosexuality’. Via corpus-assisted discourse analysis (CADS), the present study adds to previous knowledge on this\u0000 subject by qualitatively analyzing the occurrences of certain keywords in the Finnish societal context – one in which immigration\u0000 and the visibility of both Islam and sexual minorities are perceived to have increased. The analysis found four interrelated key\u0000 discourses in these online discussions: (1) Islamization as an alleged threat to gay people (in the data: ‘homosexuals’); (2) the\u0000 alleged indifference/ignorance of people to Islam’s stance against sexual minorities; (3) relativist discourse(s) claiming all\u0000 fundamentalists to be similar; and (4) othering – including for instance, the verbal stylization of Muslims as being particularly\u0000 hypersexual.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41969866","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":"Pink Dot","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/jls.10.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.10.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42165480","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":"Sexuality and the discursive construction of the digital self in the Global South","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/jls.9.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.9.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2020-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43233991","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 article reviews Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual: Narrative Resources in the Negotiation of Identities
本文回顾了酷儿、拉丁裔和双语:身份协商中的叙事资源
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This article investigates the construction of sex advice for queer women as it features on the world’s most popular lesbian website, Autostraddle. Based in the United States, the website is a “progressively feminist” online community for lesbian, bisexual and other queer women. Using multimodal critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, this article explores how representations of sexual and gender identity facilitate the construction of homonormativity on the website. It argues that these representations involve a tension between exclusivity and inclusivity. On the one hand, Autostraddle wants to construct an exclusive markedly lesbian subjectivity and a subcultural model of lesbian sex, which is lacking in mainstream culture. On the other hand, it aims to be inclusive of transgender and bisexual women, and to deconstruct the idea of sexual homogeneity. Findings show that Autostraddle discursively negotiates these competing goals to construct a distinctly “queer female” normativity centred on young cisgender feminine lesbians.
{"title":"“Girl-on-girl culture”","authors":"A. Bailey","doi":"10.1075/JLS.18013.BAI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JLS.18013.BAI","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the construction of sex advice for queer women as it features on the world’s most\u0000 popular lesbian website, Autostraddle. Based in the United States, the website is a “progressively feminist” online community for\u0000 lesbian, bisexual and other queer women. Using multimodal critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, this article\u0000 explores how representations of sexual and gender identity facilitate the construction of homonormativity on the website. It\u0000 argues that these representations involve a tension between exclusivity and inclusivity. On the one hand, Autostraddle wants to\u0000 construct an exclusive markedly lesbian subjectivity and a subcultural model of lesbian sex, which is lacking in mainstream\u0000 culture. On the other hand, it aims to be inclusive of transgender and bisexual women, and to deconstruct the idea of sexual\u0000 homogeneity. Findings show that Autostraddle discursively negotiates these competing goals to construct a distinctly “queer\u0000 female” normativity centred on young cisgender feminine lesbians.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2019-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/JLS.18013.BAI","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44328475","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":"Milani, Tommaso (ed). 2018. Queering Language, Gender and Sexuality","authors":"Joseph Comer","doi":"10.1075/JLS.00005.COM","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JLS.00005.COM","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2019-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42496112","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 article analyses interview data to explore how participants negotiated discourses of (hetero)sexism in relation to the controversial pop song Blurred Lines. Our previous work, based on questionnaire data, interrogated interpretations of Blurred Lines (Handforth, Paterson, Coffey-Glover & Mills 2017) and showed how participants drew on discourses of sexism in their responses. Several participants experienced significant conflict in their interpretations, and here we focus on these more complex interpretations, considering the “small stories” (Bamberg & Georgakopoulou 2008) identified in follow-up interviews with participants. Individual narratives acted as mechanisms through which participants linked Blurred Lines to wider issues such as rape culture, drawing parallels between these and their own lives. Following research in queer linguistics (King 2014; Leap 2014; Motschenbacher 2010) our use of thematic analysis, corpus linguistic tools and narrative analysis highlights the various subject positions that participants negotiated in their storytelling, and how these positions both echoed and challenged normative understandings of gender and sexuality.
{"title":"Discourses of (hetero)sexism in popular music","authors":"Laura Coffey-Glover, R. Handforth","doi":"10.1075/JLS.18007.HAN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JLS.18007.HAN","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article analyses interview data to explore how participants negotiated discourses of (hetero)sexism in\u0000 relation to the controversial pop song Blurred Lines. Our previous work, based on questionnaire data,\u0000 interrogated interpretations of Blurred Lines (Handforth, Paterson,\u0000 Coffey-Glover & Mills 2017) and showed how participants drew on discourses of sexism in their responses. Several\u0000 participants experienced significant conflict in their interpretations, and here we focus on these more complex interpretations,\u0000 considering the “small stories” (Bamberg & Georgakopoulou 2008) identified in\u0000 follow-up interviews with participants. Individual narratives acted as mechanisms through which participants linked\u0000 Blurred Lines to wider issues such as rape culture, drawing parallels between these and their own lives.\u0000 Following research in queer linguistics (King 2014; Leap 2014; Motschenbacher 2010) our use of thematic analysis, corpus\u0000 linguistic tools and narrative analysis highlights the various subject positions that participants negotiated in their\u0000 storytelling, and how these positions both echoed and challenged normative understandings of gender and sexuality.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2019-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/JLS.18007.HAN","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47421381","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}
Antagonía is Luis Goytisolo’s masterpiece. In this article I present a quantitative and qualitative study of his prose with regards to sexuality. Through an analysis of keywords, concordances, dispersion, and discourses, I show that Antagonía feeds from two historical periods, namely the ending dictatorship and the new democratic transition. Some of its discourses are the product of the Spain of the 1970s and 80s. Among them, we find sexist, male chauvinist, and homophobic discourses latent during those times. Women and queer people are frequently characterized in a negative fashion. However, we also find more subversive discourses that empower women. In sum, I consider Goytisolo’s tetralogy a “fluid” or “transitional” novel in that it is imbued with contradictory discourses rooted in different historical periods.
{"title":"Sexuality in Goytisolo’s Antagonía","authors":"José Antonio Jódar-Sánchez","doi":"10.1075/JLS.18011.JOD","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JLS.18011.JOD","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 Antagonía is Luis Goytisolo’s masterpiece. In this article I present a quantitative and\u0000 qualitative study of his prose with regards to sexuality. Through an analysis of keywords, concordances, dispersion, and\u0000 discourses, I show that Antagonía feeds from two historical periods, namely the ending dictatorship and the new\u0000 democratic transition. Some of its discourses are the product of the Spain of the 1970s and 80s. Among them, we find sexist, male\u0000 chauvinist, and homophobic discourses latent during those times. Women and queer people are frequently characterized in a negative\u0000 fashion. However, we also find more subversive discourses that empower women. In sum, I consider Goytisolo’s tetralogy a “fluid”\u0000 or “transitional” novel in that it is imbued with contradictory discourses rooted in different historical periods.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49130327","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 aims at investigating (1) whether young Thai adults can distinguish between straight male and gay-sounding speech and (2) how listeners feel about speech sounds performed by Thai straight and gay speakers in varying situations in terms of likeability and annoyance. Two experiments were conducted: first, straight males, gay males and females listened to voice stimuli of self-identified straight males and gay males and were asked to identify the sexual orientation of the speakers; second, another three groups of listeners were asked to rate the speakers’ levels of likeability and annoyance using a 5-point Likert scale. The findings indicate that there exist voice characteristics of gay- as opposed to straight-male sounding speech. Regarding the listeners’ perception in relation to speech style in four varying situations, the results indicate that listeners’ perception is not affected by situations in which the speech is delivered.
{"title":"Materializing gay identity","authors":"Varisa Osatananda, Savitri Gadavanij","doi":"10.1075/JLS.17013.OSA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JLS.17013.OSA","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper aims at investigating (1) whether young Thai adults can distinguish between straight male and\u0000 gay-sounding speech and (2) how listeners feel about speech sounds performed by Thai straight and gay speakers in varying\u0000 situations in terms of likeability and annoyance. Two experiments were conducted: first, straight males, gay males and females\u0000 listened to voice stimuli of self-identified straight males and gay males and were asked to identify the sexual orientation of the\u0000 speakers; second, another three groups of listeners were asked to rate the speakers’ levels of likeability and annoyance using a\u0000 5-point Likert scale. The findings indicate that there exist voice characteristics of gay- as opposed to straight-male sounding\u0000 speech. Regarding the listeners’ perception in relation to speech style in four varying situations, the results indicate that\u0000 listeners’ perception is not affected by situations in which the speech is delivered.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43252322","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}
‘New speakers’ refer to people who use a language regularly but are not traditional ‘native’ speakers of that language. Although this discussion has been going on for some time in other sub-disciplines of linguistics, it is more recent in research about European minoritised languages. A feature of discourse around such languages relates to their perceived suitability for diverse urban settings removed from their historical rural heartlands. Irish is an example of a minoritised language which was long associated with conservative rural communities, a reified Catholic discourse of national identity and language ideologies based on nativism. Such an approach not only marginalised urban new speakers of Irish but also exhibited hostility to LGBTQ citizens who did not befit its particular version of Irishness. In this paper, a framework of Critical Sociolinguistics is used to analyse identity positions and ideologies expressed by urban new speakers of Irish who identify as gay and/or queer.
{"title":"National identity and belonging among gay ‘new speakers’ of Irish","authors":"J. Walsh","doi":"10.1075/JLS.18008.WAL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JLS.18008.WAL","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 ‘New speakers’ refer to people who use a language regularly but are not traditional ‘native’ speakers of that\u0000 language. Although this discussion has been going on for some time in other sub-disciplines of linguistics, it is more recent in\u0000 research about European minoritised languages. A feature of discourse around such languages relates to their perceived suitability\u0000 for diverse urban settings removed from their historical rural heartlands. Irish is an example of a minoritised language which was\u0000 long associated with conservative rural communities, a reified Catholic discourse of national identity and language ideologies\u0000 based on nativism. Such an approach not only marginalised urban new speakers of Irish but also exhibited hostility to LGBTQ\u0000 citizens who did not befit its particular version of Irishness. In this paper, a framework of Critical Sociolinguistics is used to\u0000 analyse identity positions and ideologies expressed by urban new speakers of Irish who identify as gay and/or queer.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2019-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47070435","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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