Language, Gender and Sexual Identity

Poststructuralist perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-272-1868-1
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 209 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 560 g

Reihe: IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society

This book makes an innovative contribution to the relatively young field of Queer Linguistics. Subscribing to a poststructuralist framework, it presents a critical, deconstructionist perspective on the discursive construction of heteronormativity and gender binarism from a linguistic point of view. On the one hand, the book provides an outline of Queer approaches to issues of language, gender and sexual identity that is of interest to students and scholars new to the field. On the other hand, the empirical analyses of language data represent material that also appeals to experts in the field. The book deals with repercussions of the discursive materialisation of heteronormativity and gender binarism in various kinds of linguistic data. These include stereotypical genderlects, structural linguistic gender categories (especially from a contrastive linguistic point of view), the discursive sedimentation of female and feminine generics, linguistic constructions of the gendered body in advertising and the usage of personal reference forms to create characters in Queer Cinema. Throughout the book, readers become aware of the wounding potential that gendered linguistic forms may possess in certain contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Motschenbacher, Heiko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

This is a provisional table of contents, and subject to changes.

Table of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Poststructuralist perspectives on language, gender and sexual identity

Chapter 2 Queer Linguistics

Chapter 3 Queer approaches in linguistic research: Overview and suggestions for future research

Chapter 4 Redefining Genderlects

Chapter 5 The sedimentation of structural gender categories

Chapter 6 The discursive materialisation of feminine and female generics

Chapter 7 The discursive construction of the gendered body

Chapter 8 Linguistic identity construction in queer cinema

Chapter 9 Thinking further: Language, gender and wounding

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