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This paper explores the linguistic connections between queerness and terms related to ducks and birds across English, Spanish, and Yiddish dictionaries. It examines how colloquial expressions and cultural references frame queerness through the lens of animal metaphors, notably focusing on 'queer duck' and its sociolinguistic implications within American culture. Through an analysis of various lexical entries, the work highlights the complexity of queer linguistic usage and its role in expressing marginalized identities.
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Glq-a Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2009
emisférica, 2011
Translocas" is a queer of color reflection on contemporary translocal Puerto Rican theater and performance, specifically of gay performance artists and actors that engage male-to-female transvestism. I focus on the work of Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Eduardo Alegría, Jorge Merced, and Arthur Avilés as members of a generational cohort whose lives and cultural productions are marked by migration, sexile, drag, and performance. I propose the term transloca as a useful vernacular critical intervention to account for the intersection of space, geography, and sexuality in their work and lived experience.
Maledicta, XII: 91-110., 1996
Emotion, Space and Society, 2012
This article analyzes the global proliferation of discourse about gay penguins in zoos. Based on internetbased representations, we identify a directional narrative logic of "gay penguin discourses" in which the ideal gay penguin comes out as gay, falls in love, follows natural desires to parent, and may marry as a reward. This discursive chain is animated by the zoo as institutional space of captivity, which incites human subjects to become agents in its reproduction. In contests over penguin actions and morality, zookeepers, gay activists, and conservative family groups reiterate a homonormative politics of identity through talk of discrimination and rights. To identify what makes this discourse seem real, we draw on Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology to analyze the composition of the zoo as the site of a particular "mode of address" that orients humans to adopt positions of authority, evaluation, and regulation. Three orientationsdreason, emotion, and instinctdfunction as an assemblage whose elements connect and separate, such that when one orientation's ability to explain penguin behaviors is exceeded, another orientation steps in or connects with the first to supply a logic that confirms the discursive chain for the ideal gay penguin and how humans can meet his needs. Locked into logics of hetero/homo, oriented through reason, instinct, and emotion, and interpellated through emotions, humans can imagine little more than an anthropocentric repetition of our own "progress." The future, for humans and penguins, is secured.
Studies in Hispanich and Lusophone Linguistics, 2021
Costa Rica's second-person singular (2PS) address system is known for both its changing nature and its incorporation of tuteo, ustedeo, and voseo forms. While the latter are generalized across communicative contexts, tuteo use has oscillated over time, being consistently associated with foreignness, effeminacy and homosexuality, with one study (Marín Esquivel 2012) suggesting that homosexual men report using tuteo at levels significantly higher than heterosexuals. In this study, we revisit this finding using new data from a survey that elicited stated preferences for address forms and attitudes towards tuteo across different communicative contexts. Multinomial logistic regressions compared the address choices of homosexual men with those of heterosexual men and women, and attitudes were gauged by means of a thematic analysis. Results indicate that currently, with few exceptions, what best characterizes the distribution of address forms are similarities, regardless of sexuality or gender, with all participants reporting low rates of tuteo use across communicative settings. While these results suggest continued change in tuteo use, linguistic attitudes reveal a persistent perceived ideological connection between tuteo, foreignness, effeminacy and homosexuality.
Introduction, 2007
Sexuality may be understood as desire, practice, or identity. In each of these conceptions, both cultural context and language play a key role. Linguistic anthropology offers important ways of understanding the concept of sexuality as related to phenomena such as globalization, politics, normativity, violence, intersectionality, and even the ways we think of sexuality in our everyday lives. Using ethnographic examples from the United States, Latin America, Africa, Oceana, and Asia, this course looks at homosexuality, heterosexuality, bisexuality, pansexuality, queerness, kink, polyamory, and other various understandings of sexual identities, practices, and desires. Students will engage with gender and queer theory, as well as learning methods of analysis from linguistic anthropology to understand the variation and meanings of sexuality in a comparative context. Learning Objectives: Students will be able to 1. understand different ways of approaching the study of sexuality 2. relate to the topics of human diversity and similarity 2. engage with key topics, theories, and methodological approaches of linguistic anthropology 4. understand the relationship between language, sexuality, gender, identity, class, and race 5. enhance their creative, critical, and informed thinking about language and sexuality
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc. eBooks, 2014
Originally employed as a synonym of homosexual or as a homophobic slur, the term queer underwent a threefold process of re-signification, reappropriation,
Oxford University Press, 1997
From back cover: "This pioneering collection of previously unpublished articles on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender language combines queer theory and feminist theory with the latest thinking on language and gender. The book expands the field well beyond the study of "gay slang" to consider gay dialects (such as Polari in England), early modern discourse on gay practices, and late twentieth-century descriptions of homosexuality. These essays examine the conversational patterns of queer speakers in a wide variety of settings, from women's friendship groups to university rap groups and electronic mail postings.Taking a global--rather than regional--approach, the contributors herein study the language usage of sexually liminal communities in a variety of linguistic and cultural contexts, such as lesbian speakers of American Sign Language, Japanese gay male couples, Hindi-speaking hijras (eunuchs) in North India, Hausa-speaking 'yan daudu (feminine men) in Nigeria, and French and Yiddish gay groups. The most accessible and diverse collection of its kind, Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality sets a new standard in the study of language's impact on the construction of sexuality."
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Lavender lexicon is not a widely concept in the academic world. In order to contribute to this, the present work analyses gay jargon as a specialized language due to its secrecy and purpose. Having its roots in Polari, we have illustrated the development of the gay language by considering popular series from the 90s until 2018: Sex and the city, Queer as folk, RuPaul’s Drag Race and Pose. Most modern series’ subtitles showed as few cases of censorship as in Austin Powers’ trilogy, where the heterosexual slang prevails. However, it did not happen the same the previous years. It has also been exaggerated in some cases, something that affects the LGBTQ community negatively. Apart from offering a view of the concept of subtitling, we also defined the translation techniques needed when dealing with taboo and swear words and how the offensive load can be transferred.
Language, Sexuality and Power: Studies in Intersectional Sociolinguistics
Research on language and sexuality has come a long way since the inception of the field some thirty-five years ago. Even our choice of the title for this introductory chapter can be taken as evidence of how work in this area has developed from one focused primarily on the linguistic behavior of specific groups of speakers (lesbians, gay men, etc.) to one that focuses instead on how sexuality (in all of its guises) emerges through linguistic practice. As Queen (2014) notes, this change in how the field conceptualizes its object of study is due in large part to the increased integration within sociolinguistics of theoretical models of self and society drawn from related disciplines, including cultural studies and anthropology. At the same time, research on language and sexuality has also grown increasingly prominent in areas outside sociolinguistics, notably in laboratory phonology (see , where critical social theory has less of a foothold. This expansion of disciplinary approaches to the topic is a welcome development and has helped to solidify the empirical foundation of research in this area. Yet we would argue that it has also had the effect of making it at times more difficult to see how all the research conducted under the rubric of language and sexuality studies contributes to a common scholarly endeavor. One of the goals of this book is to demonstrate that it does, and to illustrate how studies emanating from various methodological perspectives all contribute to a broader understanding of the relationship between sexuality and language. For this reason, we aim in this chapter to take stock of where we currently stand, both theoretically and empirically, in relation to the study of language and sexuality. We do so not to establish prescriptive boundaries around this particular field of inquiry but rather to situate the different strands of existing research in a comprehensive and inclusive analytical framework. Put somewhat more simply, our goal is to OUP UNCORRECTED PROOF -FIRSTPROOFS, Thu Aug 13 2015, NEWGEN __10.4.1.57_Data_Acad_Med_HE_Acad_US_Levon050515OUS_MANUSCRIPT_12_First_proofs_First_proofs_Production_Appln_Book.indb 1 8/13/2015 10:36:50 PM Language, Sexuality, and Power 2
Journal of the International Network for Sexual Ethics and Politics, 2020
In this paper I consider how recognition of non-binary identities and trans people more broadly might require us to revisit the vocabulary of sexuality prevalent in the Anglosphere. I begin by examining the relationship between (neo)liberalism and inclusion practices. I then discuss linguistic innovations arising from the asexual (and aromantic) community before using data to highlight issues around trans and non-binary inclusion that exist with the current language. Next I use speculative, philosophical reasoning to break down what lies beneath sexuality when language is taken out of the equation, exploring identity, aesthetics and morphology. On the back of this exploration, I consider the question of how to distinguish fetishes and attraction, and what counts as sexuality. In the final two sections, I suggest which areas of the language might require revision to be trans-inclusive and reflect what lies beneath sexuality, and highlight a few cautionary concerns to be taken into account when considering the potential for language change. My exploration is primarily theoretical and philosophical in nature, but I complement and motivate my exploration with a small amount of data from my own original research on contextualised identity construction through speech by non-binary and other queer people in Southern England.
This special issue examines how the uid historicity of peripheral sexualities are driven by their dynamic transformations, displacements, and reformulations throughout history, having been produced, interrogated by, and represented through discourses of colonialism, slavery, imperialism, and more recently are shaped by the forces of globalization and migration, among other in uences. Scholars foster new critical dialogues on the artistic, literary, and linguistic forms through which these sexualities have been articulated and on the new centers that peripheral sexualities o en establish in the evolution of human sexuality, so- cietal norms, and creative uses of language. e studies demonstrate how inter- sections of sexualities and ideologies form critiques of normativity, whether that normativity be heteronormativity, homonationalism(s), or other orthodoxies linguistically tied to sexualities. Central to the explorations in this volume is an attention to how language is deployed in multiple media and genres, from visual and performance pieces that disrupt and rea rm traditional colonial relation- ships, to politically engaged literature that grapples with questions of identity, agency, and memory, to subversive lms that question revolutionary paradigms or reimagine them for a postnational world. ese studies focus on examples from Spain, Peru, Cuba, Bolivia, and Puerto Rico that engage the dynamics of periphery and center, national and transnational, and the liminal spaces mediat- ing between these polarities, all spaces constituted by language and sexuality.
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes