Full Description
This book advances the theorization of normativity as a key concept in language and sexuality studies, bringing together some of the author's previous work with new material for a comprehensive exploration of the influence of normativity on the relationship between language and sexuality.
The first section of the book outlines fundamental areas of inquiry in language and sexuality studies today, with a focus on queer linguistic inquiry, and elucidates the book's theoretical frameworks around normativity. Chapters in the section reflect on the ways in which normativity shapes sexuality-related language, how language is employed to convey sexual normativities and queer linguistic challenges for the use of research methods in the discipline through a discussion of their implementation in corpus linguistics. The second part of the book builds on these theoretical foundations by featuring seven case studies that illustrate a diverse range of methods and language data, with a concluding chapter considering the implications of their findings for furthering theoretical debates and future research on normativity in language and sexuality studies.
This volume will be of interest to scholars in language and sexuality, language and gender, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics and corpus linguistics.
Contents
Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Language, sexuality and the LIDISNO Project
Part 2: Theoretical and methodological considerations
Chapter 2: Language and normativity
Chapter 3: Sexual normativities
Chapter 4: A linguistic take on labeling theory
Chapter 5: Corpus linguistics in language and sexuality studies: Queer linguistic challenges
Part 3: Case studies
Chapter 6: Sexual labels I: A co-occurrence analysis
Chapter 7: Sexual labels II: A collocational word-sketch analysis
Chapter 8: Discursive shifts associated with coming out: A keyword and concordance analysis
Chapter 9: Language use before and after Stonewall: A historical corpus analysis
Chapter 10: Metalinguistic comments in gay men's pre-Stonewall narratives: A folk linguistic analysis
Chapter 11: Shedding light on sexual speech acts: A pragmatic analysis
Chapter 12: The desire-identity shift in language use: A semantically driven corpus analysis
Part 4: Conclusion
Chapter 13: Extending the remit of labeling theory
Chapter 14: Non-heteronormative language guidelines
