New perspectives on language and sexual identity

✍ Scribed by Liz Morrish, Elizabeth Morrish, Helen Sauntson

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 236
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Language and Sexual Identity demonstrates how gay men and lesbians employ language for the creation of a situated identity. Real linguistic data is analysed using textual analysis, spoken language analysis and corpus linguistic approaches. Each chapter focuses on a specific type of data and linguistic analysis and the authors relate their findings to sociolinguistic theories of communities of practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Contested terms?......Page 16
Gender, language and feminist theory......Page 18
Sexuality, language and queer theory......Page 19
Communities of practice......Page 21
Exploring relationships between gender, desire and sexuality......Page 24
Language, sexuality and identity: our perspective......Page 27
Tactics of intersubjectivity......Page 35
Key arguments......Page 37
1 Examining Lesbian Conversations as Discourses of Identity and Resistance......Page 38
Is there such a thing as ‘lesbian conversation’?......Page 39
Structural–functional discourse analysis (SFDA)......Page 41
Francis and Hunston’s system of analysis......Page 44
Summary of analysis......Page 60
Gender and sexuality identities......Page 61
Lesbian conversations and communities of practice......Page 62
2 Analysing Evaluation in Coming Out Narratives......Page 66
‘Coming out’......Page 67
APPRAISAL......Page 69
JUDGEMENT......Page 73
The data......Page 75
Themes in coming out narratives......Page 76
Concluding remarks......Page 97
Approaching this research......Page 100
Shame......Page 101
Discourse and transgression......Page 104
Ethics and the lesbian teacher......Page 106
Discourse, performativity, identity......Page 109
Lesbian performance and visibility......Page 110
Concealment/disguisement......Page 112
Performing with pronouns......Page 114
Lesbian discourse strategies......Page 116
Deictic centring and confounding......Page 117
Inside/outside?......Page 118
Inside/outside: a materialist view......Page 120
Conclusion......Page 122
4 Discourse and Identity in a Corpus of Lesbian Erotica......Page 125
Pornography or erotica?......Page 126
Using a specialised corpus......Page 130
Setting the context: lesbians don’t talk about sex!......Page 131
Corpus linguistics and the study of erotic texts......Page 133
Lexical frequency findings......Page 137
Collocations of some frequent words......Page 138
Keywords......Page 143
A lesbian authorship of self?......Page 146
5 Sexual Identity and Gender: Discursive Constructions of ‘Butch’ and ‘Femme’ in Film......Page 150
Femme and butch: past and current debates......Page 151
The use of film as data: levels of representation......Page 157
Techniques of analysis......Page 159
Bound......Page 163
Gazon Maudit......Page 168
Set It Off......Page 172
Some conclusions......Page 177
6 Camp Codes and Subtle Outing: How the British Broadsheet Press Learned Gay Slang......Page 179
The political context of outing......Page 180
Case study 1 – Michael Portillo: some brief biographical notes......Page 182
Case study 2 – Peter Mandelson: some brief biographical notes......Page 184
Linguistic framework of outing......Page 187
The broadsheet data......Page 191
Pragmatic outing......Page 192
Camp discourse......Page 199
Discussion......Page 205
Conclusion......Page 209
Conclusion......Page 211
Returning to communities of practice......Page 212
Relationships between sexuality and gender......Page 213
Identity......Page 215
Iterability......Page 217
Tactics of intersubjectivity......Page 218
Studying sexuality using applied linguistics......Page 219
Moving forward......Page 221
Bibliography......Page 223
Index......Page 233