{"title":"Review of Paíz (2020): Queering the English Language Classroom: A Practical Guide for Teachers","authors":"Ashley Reilly-Thornton","doi":"10.1075/jls.00022.rei","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00022.rei","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45464587","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}
Same-sex relationships have, over time, stirred serious debates worldwide. Studies on same-sex sexualities in the Nigerian context have focused on its representation in Nollywood movies and other arguments centred on ethics, culture and religion, with little attention paid to how queer people are framed by the Nigerian media. This study, therefore, explores agency and processes in the representation of gay people in news reports of selected Nigerian newspapers, in order to unearth how this social group is discursively constructed in the Nigerian context. Drawing on insights from Fairclough’s approach to critical discourse analysis and Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics, this study considers three popular Nigerian newspapers (Vanguard, Nigerian Tribune and The Punch) within three years (2013–2015, being the period of intense debate on the legalisation of the anti-gay bill in Nigeria). Results reveal that gay people are negatively evaluated as actors of negative material processes such as ‘murder’ and other violent actions, and goals of the actions of ‘arrests’ and ‘remands’, ideologically portraying them as criminals and dangerous. The study provides insight into the biased posturing of the Nigerian media on important social/national issues such as same-sex relationships.
{"title":"The discursive construction of gay people in news reports of selected Nigerian newspapers","authors":"O. Adegbola","doi":"10.1075/jls.19009.ade","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.19009.ade","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Same-sex relationships have, over time, stirred serious debates worldwide. Studies on same-sex sexualities in the\u0000 Nigerian context have focused on its representation in Nollywood movies and other arguments centred on ethics, culture and\u0000 religion, with little attention paid to how queer people are framed by the Nigerian media. This study, therefore, explores agency\u0000 and processes in the representation of gay people in news reports of selected Nigerian newspapers, in order to unearth how this\u0000 social group is discursively constructed in the Nigerian context. Drawing on insights from Fairclough’s approach to critical\u0000 discourse analysis and Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics, this study considers three popular Nigerian newspapers\u0000 (Vanguard, Nigerian Tribune and The Punch) within three years (2013–2015, being the period\u0000 of intense debate on the legalisation of the anti-gay bill in Nigeria). Results reveal that gay people are negatively evaluated as\u0000 actors of negative material processes such as ‘murder’ and other violent actions, and goals of the actions of ‘arrests’ and\u0000 ‘remands’, ideologically portraying them as criminals and dangerous. The study provides insight into the biased posturing of the\u0000 Nigerian media on important social/national issues such as same-sex relationships.","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46875500","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 Zottola (2021): Transgender Identities in the Press: A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis","authors":"M. Reuvers","doi":"10.1075/jls.00021.reu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jls.00021.reu","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43328648","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 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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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
{"title":"Cashman, Holly R. 2018. Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual: Narrative Resources in the Negotiation of Identities","authors":"L. Wright","doi":"10.1075/JLS.00004.WRI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/JLS.00004.WRI","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual: Narrative Resources in the Negotiation of Identities","PeriodicalId":36680,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Sexuality","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2019-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48432723","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 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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
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