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.
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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":null,"pages":null},"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}
This article reviews From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender and Gay Male Subcultures
这篇文章回顾了从变装皇后到皮革男:语言、性别和男同性恋亚文化
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